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Alert: directIO [char] = yes

What does it mean? What do I do about it?

Example alert from the ProTop Portal:

What does it mean?

The -directio startup parameter is being used by this database. It was created decades ago for some bleeding-edge filesystems that have long been supplanted by much better technology.

What to do?

Remove the -directio startup parameter. It doesn't do what you think it does.

If all else fails...

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