don@dksfr.UUCP (don kossman) (03/07/90)
environment: sco xenix 386, ast 386/25 with cache, wd1007v controller 16 mb ram, 2 x primus esdi 750m (unformatted) drives excelan 405t ethernet package, oracle 5.1.17.x for xenix 386 we have been told by oracle to expect about a 30% performance gain by using raw disk partitions instead of regular xenix files for the database and before-image files. the system is used exclusively as an oracle database server, clients (about 10 386SX machines running xenix) connect to the server via sqlnet/tcp-ip. can someone who's tried both configurations in a similar environment please comment? -- Don Kossman, SEI Information Technology, Los Angeles mahendo.jpl.nasa.gov!jplgodo!seila!don OR sun!suntzu!seila!don