DISK_ASYNCH_IO

Property	Description
Parameter type	Boolean
Default value	`true`
Modifiable	No
Range of values	`true \| false`
Basic	No

DISK_ASYNCH_IO controls whether I/O to datafiles, control files, and logfiles is asynchronous (that is, whether parallel server processes can overlap I/O requests with CPU processing during table scans). If your platform supports asynchronous I/O to disk, Oracle recommends that you leave this parameter set to its default value. However, if the asynchronous I/O implementation is not stable, you can set this parameter to false to disable asynchronous I/O. If your platform does not support asynchronous I/O to disk, this parameter has no effect.

If you set DISK_ASYNCH_IO to false, then you can increase DB_WRITER_PROCESSES or use DBWR_IO_SLAVES to simulate asynchronous I/O.