Re: AIO vs. KAIO

Posted in 1997

Dennis Withem — Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:49:11 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Thomas J. Girsch wrote: > > I understand that KAIO has better performance over AOI when doing > retrieves > > from a database. > > Could someone provide figures, ie how much faster KAIO is over AIO > > That's going to depend largely on platform. From what I understand, on at > least one platform (HP), AIO is actually more efficient than KAIO. > > But typically, KAIO is better. I don't know for sure by how much. > I have just swithed from AIO to KAIO on an hp9000 10.20 and saw the reports that I was using to test run 16% faster. ~D.