RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Jared . Still
pients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size? Tim, I don't believe that you can see that by strace. The whole thing is happening entirely in the kernel. The problem is that each device has a fixed size buffer alloca

RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Gogala, Mladen
June 13, 2002 10:13 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size? > > > Carmen et al, > > Did some testing on this. On solaris 2.8 there doesn't seem to be any > upper-limit on single, atomic disk I/O, probably because >

RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size? Yeah, I've been using this device for backups for years.  Always get very good performance. (This is a joke folks!) Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] When someone says "I want a programming language in which I only need

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Jared Still
Hey Tim! That /dev/null device is really fast! Solaris wrote 10 megabytes to it in 0.5 seconds. Where can I get one of those? Jared ;) On Thursday 13 June 2002 19:13, Tim Gorman wrote: > Carmen et al, > > Did some testing on this. On solaris 2.8 there doesn't seem to be any > upper-l

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Tim Gorman
Live and learn! I'd never heard of SSTIOMAX, but there's a decent MetaLink article on it (#131530.1)... I tried using "nm" and "strings" on the "oracle" executable and many of the ".a" and ".so" objects and couldn't find it mentioned, so it must be a "#define" compiler directive in the source co

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Connor McDonald
On 2.7 0.8128 read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\002\0\0\0F0\0".., 10485760) = 10485760 0.1003 write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\002\0\0\0F0\0".., 10485760) = 10485760 0.7603 read(3, "\0\00386\0\0 P\01BAFD0FA".., 10485760) = 10485760 0.1039 write(4, "\0\00386\0\0 P\01BAFD0FA".., 10485760) = 10485760 1.0187 read(3, "\0\

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Peter Gram
Hi Tim Here are numbers for a Redhat 7.2 Linux with kernel 2.4.17 using LVM1.0.3 on the disk. There is something rotten here since the read time is not increasing with a factor 10 as I would expect the write time is behaving close to expected. If you want the full strace drop a mail. 1 Mb

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Carmen et al, Did some testing on this. On solaris 2.8 there doesn't seem to be any upper-limit on single, atomic disk I/O, probably because someone finally got smart and started allocating memory buffers for I/O dynamically using the "malloc()" package instead of hard-coding a fixed-length vari

RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-12 Thread Gogala, Mladen
3 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size? > > > Amazing how so many can't tell a Ferrari from a Porsche. > > Not you Mladen, I realize that's why "Ferrari" was in quotes. > > Jared > >

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-12 Thread Jared . Still
ecipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size? The "IO buffer size" is the maximal size of a single, atomic disk IO, usually either 128k or 256k. All IO requests larger then that will be internally broken into m

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
The "IO buffer size" is the maximal size of a single, atomic disk IO, usually either 128k or 256k. All IO requests larger then that will be internally broken into multiple requests. As my Solaris is getting rusty (working with HP-UX and Linux now) I cannot remember the exact parameter name. It