Re: AIO -> STATE to be configured at system restart

From: Ralph (ralph.rye_at_norgetek.com)
Date: 03/22/04


Date: 22 Mar 2004 09:15:29 -0800

Yes, you need to enable AIO. Also your application needs to take
advantage of aio, software such as Oracle, and DB2 knows how to use
Asynch I/O.

"C C" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<A207c.37566$PY.23487@newssvr26.news.prodigy.com>...
> Hello!
>
> This Asynchronous I/O characteristic in our RS6000 is set to "defined".
> When I get help on this characteristic, it says "... The possible values are
> defined, which indicates that the asynchronous I/O will be left in the
> defined state and not available for use, and available, indicating that
> asynchronous I/O will be configured and available for use.".
>
> Does this mean that our system is not making use of the Asynchronous I/O?
>
> I'm trying to improve our disk I/O performance because we are experiencing
> long system waits during buffer flush of our datavg volume group.
>
> Thanks in advance



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