A handful of replies point to enabling priority_paging in all systems
regardless of underlying FS and memory models. Priority Paging
(http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/priority_paging.html), is
supposed to fix the traditional paging mechanism problem wherein during
heavy filesystem I/O, application pages are stolen by filesystem paging
resulting in a significantly slowed down system.
The reason for this post is that there virtually is no official stand from
Veritas and SUN on enabling priority_paging on systems that employ Quick
I/O. Veritas Quick I/O allow files sitting on filesystems to behave as 'raw
devices' thereby avoiding the system buffer. And since priority_paging is
supposed to only benefit systems that do a lot of I/O on filesystems, we've
gotten quite a bit confused whether there's any real benefit in enabling it.
We've employed it and it seems to have virtually lessened paging on our
systems and our wait I/O's have dramatically fallen to acceptable levels.
Many thanks to those that have responded. I am attaching their replies as a
separate file.
Original POST:
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> Esteemed Gurus:
>
> We are running Oracle 8.1.6 on UE servers, Solaris 2.6 in which we employ
> Veritas Database Edition with its Quick I/O feature. Quick I/O allows us
> to treat database files (on Filesystems) as character device files thereby
> giving us some semblance of raw I/O bypassing the system buffers. May
> question is : is it still necessary to enable priority_paging on Quick I/O
> DB environments - the fact that we're nearer raw in most of our I/O?
>
> Thanks and I will summarize.
>
>
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> UNIX/Microsoft/GIS Consultant
> Decision Consultants, Inc
>
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>
> Disclaimer: All views & opinions in this e-mail are mine alone!
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> <<replies.txt>>
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