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[Veritas-bu] Using MPX causing disk access times to skyrocket

2002-11-14 08:18:43
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Using MPX causing disk access times to skyrocket
From: evangel AT georgetown DOT edu (Mark Evangelista)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:18:43 -0500
One plausible explanation is that multithreading is keeping your tape speeds
up which will improve throughput.

"W. Curtis Preston" wrote:

> Instead of sending 10 streams to 10 tape drives, we're sending 10 Oracle
> streams
> to five tape drives.
>
> The DBAs are claiming that vxstat shows that disk access times have shot
> up significanly during backups, and this doesn't make any sense to me.
> Does anybody have any idea why this would be the case?
>
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