Neil

From the IDS Machine Notes:-


7. Kernel AIO is a standard feature of Solaris 7, and is supported
by this release. KAIO is enabled by default.
To disable KAIO, set the environment variable KAIOOFF.

KAIOOFF=1; export KAIOOFF (for Bourne or Korn Shell)

setenv KAIOOFF 1 (for C Shell)


Keith

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Neil Truby [mailto:neil.truby@ardenta.com]
-> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:37 PM
-> To: informix-list@iiug.org
-> Subject: Re: IDS 10 erratic run times
->
->
-> "scottishpoet" <dryburghj@yahoo.com> wrote in message
-> news:1127924651.415910.218520@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
-> > Neil,
-> >
-> > spotted this in this thread ...
-> >
-> > But, if we disable kaio (this is Solaris, so it's
-> substituting block
-> > for
-> > character devices), we get a consistent performance every time. We
-> > have
-> > repeated this 20 or
-> >
-> > This is not how to disable KIO on any platform.
-> >
-> > Substituting block for character devices will introduce performance
-> > problems.
->
->
->
->
-> Thanks Poet.
->
-> How would you disable kaio on Solaris?
->
->

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