Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, Second Edition, December 2008

About obtaining volume I/O statistics ...................................... 288
About tuning VxFS ..................................................................... 289
How monitoring free space works ............................................ 289
How tuning VxFS I/O parameters works ................................... 291
About tunable VxFS I/O parameters ......................................... 291
About obtaining file I/O statistics using the Quick I/O
interface ....................................................................... 296
About I/O statistics data ........................................................ 296
Obtaining file I/O statistics using Veritas extension for Oracle
Disk Manager ................................................................ 298
About I/O statistics ............................................................... 299
About tuning Oracle databases ...................................................... 300
Sequential table scans ........................................................... 300
Asynchronous I/O ................................................................ 300
Tuning buffer cache .............................................................. 301
Setting Oracle block reads during sequential scans ..................... 301
Setting slave parameters ....................................................... 302
Configuring memory allocation ............................................... 302
About tuning HP-UX ................................................................... 302
max_thread_proc ................................................................. 302
asyncdsk, asyncdsk_included, and max_async_ports ................... 303
eqmemsize .......................................................................... 303
nproc ................................................................................. 303
maxuproc ........................................................................... 303
semmni .............................................................................. 303
semmns .............................................................................. 303
Appendix A Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Command
Line Interface ............................................................... 305
Overview of commands ............................................................... 305
About the command line interface ................................................. 308
Updating the repository using dbed_update .............................. 309
Checking the database configuration environment using
dbed_checkconfig ........................................................... 310
Saving the database configuration environment using
dbed_saveconfig ............................................................. 314
Creating Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptcreate .................. 315
Displaying Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptdisplay .............. 319
Mounting Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptmount ................ 321
Unmounting Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptumount .......... 322
Creating and working with Storage Checkpoint allocation policies
using dbed_ckptpolicy ..................................................... 323
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