Re: S.E. ver. 6 slow when DBTEMP is not /tmp

Posted in 1996

Nils Myklebust — Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:14:02 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Christian Hansen <chrhan@pip.dknet.dk> wrote: :We have a Standard Engine version 6 running on a Sparc/Solaris :installation which bahaves pretty strange. :If DBTEMP (which defaults to /tmp) is set to anything else but /tmp :the amount of i/o the backend performs increases dramatical, have :anybody seen the same behavour, and if so, what did you do :about it ? We allmost allways set DBTEMP to something other than /tmp without any performance difference at all. May be you have set it to some NFS mounted drive. That might be a disaster. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company