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    Denis Vlasenko wrote:

    > Well, I too currently work with Oracle.
    > Apparently people who wrote damn thing have very, eh, Oracle-centric
    > world-view. "We want direct writes to the disk. Period." Why? Does it
    > makes sense? Are there better ways? - nothing. They think they know better.
    >
    I fear you are taking the Windows approach, that the computer is there
    to serve the o/s and applications have to do things the way the o/s
    wants. As opposed to the UNIX way, where you can either be clever or
    stupid, the o/s is there to allow you to use the hardware, not be your
    mother.

    Currently applications have the option of letting the o/s make decisions
    via open/read/write, or let the o/s make decisions and tell the
    application via aio, or using O_DIRECT and having full control over the
    process. And that's exactly as it should be. It's not up to the o/s to
    be mother.

    > (And let's not even start on why oracle ignores SIGTERM. Apparently Unix
    > rules aren't for them. They're too big to play by rules.)

    Any process can ignore SIGTERM, or do a significant amount of cleanup
    before exit()ing. Complex operations need to be completed or unwound.
    Why select Oracle? Other applications may also do that, with more or
    less valid reasons.

    --
    Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
    "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
    the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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