Two days until Asia! Trip Update.

September 27th, 2007 § Leave a Comment

Two days until I leave for Asia. (You have no idea how busy I’ve been for the past month!) If anyone’s curious about trip details I’ve posted about it over on the non-technical side of my blog.

Cache Buffers Chains and Latch Spelunking

September 13th, 2007 § 4 Responses

Last night I posted a case study where I used the AWR (a blessed new feature) to investigate “gc buffer busy” wait events in a RAC environment. I concluded the write-up by theorizing that the single freelist was pointing all nodes of the cluster to the same small group of blocks for inserts and thereby [...]

GC Buffer Busy Waits in RAC: Finding Hot Blocks

September 12th, 2007 § 23 Responses

Well I don’t have a lot of time to write anything up… sheesh – it’s like 10pm and I’m still messing with this. I should be in bed. But before I quit for the night I thought I’d just do a quick post with some queries that might be useful for anyone working on a [...]

Formula for db_file_multiblock_read_count

September 2nd, 2007 § Leave a Comment

Just sent this to someone in an email and it seems like something that could be useful for everyone. They were asking how to determine the best setting for db_file_multiblock_read_count. First off, you probably will need assistance from a system admin or SAN admin if you’re running on a SAN. And contrary to one popular [...]