Balancing I/O

Discusses disk striping, random and sequential file disk access, and ways to control the size of the message log file.

• Raw I/O (on UNIX Operating Systems)
  You can create a database or dbspace on a raw device or a file system file.
• Sybase IQ and Disk Striping
  Striping data across multiple disks is an essential technique for good performance.
• Internal Striping
  Disk striping takes advantage of multiple disk spindles and provides the speed of parallel disk writes.
• Strategic File Locations
  Provide additional storage resources to improve file disk I/O.