Re: large chunks

Posted in 2005

Richard Kofler — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:36:40 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Dirk Moolman schrieb: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of Neil Truby > Sent: 13 April 2005 11:49 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: large chunks > > "Campbell, John (GE Consumer Finance)" <John.Campbell2@ge.com> wrote in > message news:1113426982.726dc1302a9e6844b332cbb47a41b78d@teranews... > >>Is anyone running IDS 9.4 on a SAN with large chunks? Is performance >>satisfactory? >> >>Yes. Why might you think it might not be, and what difference would a > > SAN > >>make? > > > > A little off topic - I am new in the world of SAN's (we just bought an > EMC) - and learnt a new buzz word ...... caching *sark on* Do you mean, how surprisingly samll parts of the cache, which is too small anyways because it is expensive, remain for your OLTP data when those BI apps are sluping in thet multi gigabyte seq files? Or do you mean, that you lose another 10% in your fabric switch of that poor 2 Gigabit transfer rate from I/O subsystem cache to LRU buffers? Or are you one of still many unlucky guys who did not get the chance to see 8 SATA disks on a fast controller attached to PCI-X? *sark off* cu, dic_k > > It almost gets a new meaning on SAN's - a different architecture I have > to get used to > > > sending to informix-list -- Richard Kofler SOLID STATE EDV Dienstleistungen GmbH Vienna/Austria/Europe