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Slow I/O On HP Unix (Doc ID 457063.1)

Last updated on MARCH 03, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 and later
HP-UX PA-RISC (32-bit)
HP OpenVMS Alpha
HP-UX Itanium
HP Tru64 UNIX
HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit)
HP OpenVMS VAX

Symptoms

Disk utility output shows 100% usage for disk continously:

 

 

Cause

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In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution
 1. Use the O/S striping software
 2. Use Direct IO
 mincache and convosync
 Parameters in Oracle influencing the use of Direct IO
 3. Concurrent I/O
 "-o cio"
References

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