Oracle I/O and Operating System Caching

Well it’s been awhile since I’ve written anything for the blog - during the past four months I went on a trip to Asia, celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas with both my family and my girlfriend’s family and then in January I got engaged! I’ve also been working on some continuing educational goals - so needless to say I’ve been keeping busy. And I will continue to be very busy over the next few months of wedding planning so I probably won’t be writing too much.

This post is just another interesting case study from a customer I’m working with right now. We were looking at various queues in the I/O stream and wondering how we might be able to tweak them. I was mainly investigating the host HBA’s - but in the process of digging into this I also learned about few other queues and Linux internals in general as it relates to Oracle.
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