----- Original Message ----- > Surpising enough the write cache on the disk array was set to 0 and 100% for > the read cache on this particular > RAID 5 system which does lots of small writes for the application making > things even worse.
Hehehe! Can never win, eh? :) > > The DBA also sugested "but the BCHR is 99.7% which means that blah , blah , > blah and in Oracle terms performance is very good". Ah yes, the ratios! How much longer is that one gonna linger... > Another thing that came up in my furious conversation with them was "but the > disks has enough capacity blah blah blah, > why do we need additional disks". but, isn't a 256Gb disk faster than an 80Gb disk anyway? It's what the hardware vendor told me!.... > No offense to any Oracle DBA in Australia as we all know there are some > excellent DBA's here like Connor, Steve, > Mark Gurry, Guy Harrison, Nuno Sunto, Howard Rogers, etc, etc.... I dunno about the others and I certainly don't consider myself excellent. But I suspect most will agree with me: given the poor standard of DBAs in Australia, I'd rather not be associated with that title, thank you very much. <minor rant> Is it too much to ask to have my name spelled properly? Or am I being singled out for any particular reason? </minor rant> Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nuno Souto INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
