Oracle RAC on RedHat Linux Best Practice guide and ... - OpenMPE
Oracle RAC on RedHat Linux Best Practice guide and ... - OpenMPE
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Adjust <str<strong>on</strong>g>Oracle</str<strong>on</strong>g> Block Size<br />
• A UNIX system reads entire operating system blocks from<br />
the disk. If the database block size is smaller than the<br />
UNIX file system block size, I/O b<strong>and</strong>width is inefficient. If<br />
you set the <str<strong>on</strong>g>Oracle</str<strong>on</strong>g> database block size to be a multiple of<br />
the file system blocksize, you can increase performance<br />
by up to five percent.<br />
• The DB_BLOCK_SIZE initializati<strong>on</strong> parameter sets the<br />
database block size. However, to change the value of this<br />
parameter, you must recreate the database.<br />
• To see the current value of the DB_BLOCK_SIZE<br />
parameter, enter the SHOW PARAMETER<br />
DB_BLOCK_SIZE comm<strong>and</strong> in SQL*Plus<br />
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