Re: [suse-oracle] enabling async IO, performance questions

From: Anton Dischner (Anton.Dischner_at_med.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2003 - 10:30:26 CEST


Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:30:26 +0200
From: Anton Dischner <Anton.Dischner@med.uni-muenchen.de>
Message-ID: <BB9F0BC2.C2EF%Anton.Dischner@med.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] enabling async IO, performance questions

Hi,

i have 2 Quad Xeon plenty of RAM connected to RAID 5 via 3 channel SCSI.
Performes very well. Async off.

I have a new dual Xeon (faster) 2 GB RAM connected to a fibre channel RAID.
Standard was async off.
System performance with one user was great.
A soon as i tried to log in as a second user i had to wait for approx 30-60
seconds just for the logon!

With the help of Oracle support we quickly found that system is waiting on
i/o very heavily.

Doing statspacks is very helpful.

db file sequential reads was 92 % of time.

Turning async i/o solved the problem.

The system now runs very performant.

Another performance boost was changing write through to write back of
the RAID 5. Yes i know for the sake of security.

regards,

Toni

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> 1.) Can the experienced folks give any indication as
> to how enabling async IO can improve performance, i.e.
> roughly speaking by what factor can it improve, given
> that all other factors are left alone ?
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