On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:54 -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote: > Thai Duong wrote: > > > Hi Wendy, > > > > Thx for the information. I'll turn on direct I/O on my system. Do you > > have any information about how many percent I should gain in term of > > I/O performance when turning direct I/O on in general and with Oracle > > RAC in particular? > > > Our performance group did pass the numbers around sometime ago - the > gain seemed to be quite positive but I don't remember the details. On > the other hand, do remember this is not a frequent execution code path > so try to take the switching steps slowly (i.e. make sure you have > backup plan, etc, particularly on GFS 6.0 system). Wendy, Any change these performance numbers could be shared with the list? Thanks. /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster