Thanks Dave, Don, and Patrice.
It's hardware RAID, a Compaq GS140 machine, and Oracle on VMS [not my
choice of OS/hardware]. Limited to one large RAID5 volume.
I'd like to make the most of what's there, because for political
reasons nothing else will change.
Does it make any sense to increase
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From: dana mn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Re: Tuning, RAID5, and fragmentation and DBWR
Thanks Dave, Don, and Patrice.
It's hardware RAID, a Compaq GS140 machine
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From: dana mn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 6:20 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Tuning, RAID5, and fragmentation
Presuming a
Presuming a DBA is forced to use RAID5, what elements of tuning become
irrelevant? (in the sense that if you're stuck with RAID5, warts and
all, then trying to tune X, Y, and Z would be a waste of time /
ineffective).
Load balancing files would be one thing.. no way to put indexes and
tables on
dana mn wrote:
Presuming a DBA is forced to use RAID5, what elements of tuning become
irrelevant? (in the sense that if you're stuck with RAID5, warts and
all, then trying to tune X, Y, and Z would be a waste of time /
ineffective).
Load balancing files would be one thing.. no way to put
