[CentOS] Good value for /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

John R Pierce wrote:
> in our case, our production systems are a very large very complex 
> realtime oracle database running on large scale Sun enterprise hardware 
> on bigiron EMC storage, using dozens and dozens of raid10 logical 
> volumes as you do NOT want to have a single 10TB volume, sorry.   by 
> hand optimizing the tablespace layouts of the applications tables and 
> indicies, which have very specific access patterns, we can get double 
> the throughput of the blind 'just stripe the universe' approach.   Since 

Oh you would not have a single 10TB volume of course: and it is still a 
little quaint to hand optimize tablespaces. That is something we did in 
the 90s.  Our own tests on multi-TB databases and modern SAN systems, 
the shotgun approach beat hand optimization every time. And we are 
talking about people with dozens of years with SQL optimization behind 
them. Intelligent I/O prefetch adaption, intelligent and dynamic access 
plans... the world of performance in the RDBM world is changing and old 
rules for performance are changing with it.

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