More information is now available on this - application is reading files in 
32K chunks from within Oracle.  Oracle's DBMS_LOB.READ function gets these 
files from the AdvFS filesystem - balanced and defragmented.
Usual response times are around 1 second.  Evey hour or so a couple of 
requests take 15 or more seconds to complete.  No syslog, binary errorlog 
errors, IO, CPU or memory consumption spikes.  I tried to use advfsstat but 
the output is not specific and I do not know what I am looking for.
HSG80 is set to max_cached_transfer_size of 256, AdvFS kernel parms to 
CPQ/Oracle recommendations.
Any thought or similar problems?
Thanks
Alex Gorbachev
 >Managers,
 >
 >I am trying to pinpoint a source of intermittent slowdowns on a 300 GB AdvFS
 >domain with over a million files - GS160/Tru64 5.1 PK3.  Overall performance
 >is good but every once in a while a file takes a long time to retrieve (from
 >30 seconds to 10 minutes).
 >
 >Any insight on troubleshooting/tuning?
 >
 >Thank you,
 >Alex Gorbachev
Received on Wed Nov 07 2001 - 15:10:13 NZDT