You could always swap it out for an HP server?

Heehee! Kidding!

-----Original Message-----
From: AMeeks@(protected)]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:59 PM
To: suse-oracle@(protected)
Subject: [suse-oracle] Heavy I/O causes servers to become unusable


We have Oracle databases and applications running on IBM servers --
SLES8 on our apps server and SLES9 on our db servers.

We have our development servers setup with RAID 5.

We find that when I perform heavy I/O such as copying a database or
applying patches or upgrades, the servers become unusable. TOP will
show CPU idle of 35 - 50 % but a load average or 10 - 15. This happens
on internal disks as well as disks on our EMC Clarion so we suspect it
is more of a server or OS issue.

I have been a dba for 12 years and have performed the same operations on
HP and Sun Solaris. On Sun and HP, I would see the server become slow,
but not unusable.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Angie


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