Re: KAIO clarification.

bruce, : - Everything I have read in the manuals and in Suto's book : indicates that we should not set NUMAIOVPS if we are using : KAIO (Kernel Asynchronous IO). that seems to be true. if you are using kaio, you only need a few aiovps. the kaio's do asynchronous i/o through the kernel, so can submit i/o requests but don't have to wait around for them to complete. so in this case, the kaio's can handle a huge quantity of i/o requests. : - Everything I have read indicates that KAIO will automatically : be used if our kernel supports it and we are using raw devices : (which we are). we have 7.11 under solaris 2.4 on a sparcsever 20, and it just kicked right in. i didn't have to do anything special to get the kaio vp's running. onstat will show you the kaio threads, vp's etc... i would talk to informix if they don't appear to be running, because, as is said, we didn't have to do anything to get them going. mickm -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Mickey Mestel mickm@netcom.com -on a beach in thailand to a beautiful, stoned, norwegian woman: "..yeah, it's just another foreign country without ice." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------