Using iostat tune informix databases

Posted in 2000

Chris Wagner — Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:43:26 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I'm wondering how many of you out there use iostat? Yes, I know that it is not an informix command, but that it is a AIX command. I use it to determine io contention on my hard drives, this helps me to determine, if I need to move my growing tables to new dbspaces on different harddrives

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Thomas Parsli — 10 Mar 2000 16:49:56 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Chris Wagner <cwagner@epi-tech.com> writes: > I'm wondering how many of you out there use iostat? I just miss it;( (running Linux) > Yes, I know that it is not an informix command, but that it is a AIX > command. > I use it to determine io contention on my hard drives, this helps me to > determine, > if I need to move my growing tables to new dbspaces on different > harddrives I find onperf better, preferably combined with gpm. Thomas

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Olaf Klein — 15 Mar 2000 19:51:24 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 10 Mar 2000 16:49:56 +0100, Thomas Parsli <thomas.parsli@startsiden.no> wrote: >> Yes, I know that it is not an informix command, but that it is a AIX >> command. >I find onperf better, preferably combined with gpm. onperf is (under Digital Unix 4.0d and 7.30) a big bug hole which spreads core files... Bye, Olaf -- A long dezember, and there´s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last... [Counting Crows]

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