Re: Keeping clean pages in shared memory
Posted in 1995
"Andy Kent" — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
> > > But what if the system *is* disk-bound during page cleaning? I don't > > think Online takes into account other disk activity when deciding > > whether to flush - it's all based on snooze times and LRU thresholds. > > If the application is disk bound, the best solution is to get another > disk, and if you are using unbuffered logging, that is the only sensible > way to go because playing around with checkpoint intervals and LRU% > won't solve the problem. Try convincing most customers of that! Even if he did, he'd probably stick it in a RAID array :-) akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) ------------------------------------------------ Freelance Informix Database Specialist, Redland, Bristol, England