Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-29 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 28 sept. 09 à 17:58, Glenn Fawcett a écrit : Been there, done that, got the tee shirt A larger SGA will *always* be more efficient at servicing Oracle requests for blocks. You avoid going through all the IO code of Oracle and it simply reduces to a hash. Sounds like good advice

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-28 Thread Glenn Fawcett
Been there, done that, got the tee shirt A larger SGA will *always* be more efficient at servicing Oracle requests for blocks. You avoid going through all the IO code of Oracle and it simply reduces to a hash. http://blogs.sun.com/glennf/entry/where_do_you_cache_oracle al...@sun wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-28 Thread al...@sun
Hi all, There is no generic response for: Is it better to have a "small SGA + big ZFS ARC" or "large SGA + small ZFS ARC"? We can awser: Have a large enough SGA do get good cache hit ratio (higher than 90 % for OLTP). Have some GB ZFS arc (Not less than 500M, usually more than 16GB is not us

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-25 Thread Christo Kutrovsky
Hi, Definitely large SGA, small arc. In fact, it's best to disable the ARC altogether for the Oracle filesystems. Blocks in the db_cache (oracle cache) can be used "as is" while cached data from ARC needs significant CPU processing before it's inserted back into the db_cache. Not to mention t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-24 Thread Enda O'Connor
Richard Elling wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Javier Conde wrote: Hello, Given the following configuration: * Server with 12 SPARCVII CPUs and 96 GB of RAM * ZFS used as file system for Oracle data * Oracle 10.2.0.4 with 1.7TB of data and indexes * 1800 concurrents users with PeopleSof

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-24 Thread Javier Conde
Hi Richard, Thanks for your reply. We are using Solaris 10 u6 and ZFS version 10. Regards, Javi Richard Elling wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Javier Conde wrote: Hello, Given the following configuration: * Server with 12 SPARCVII CPUs and 96 GB of RAM * ZFS used as file system for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-24 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Javier Conde wrote: Hello, Given the following configuration: * Server with 12 SPARCVII CPUs and 96 GB of RAM * ZFS used as file system for Oracle data * Oracle 10.2.0.4 with 1.7TB of data and indexes * 1800 concurrents users with PeopleSoft Financial * 2 Peo

[zfs-discuss] ZFS ARC vs Oracle cache

2009-09-24 Thread Javier Conde
Hello, Given the following configuration: * Server with 12 SPARCVII CPUs and 96 GB of RAM * ZFS used as file system for Oracle data * Oracle 10.2.0.4 with 1.7TB of data and indexes * 1800 concurrents users with PeopleSoft Financial * 2 PeopleSoft transactions per day * HDS USP1100 with LUN