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Analyzing Asynchronous I/O Support with Oracle10g

This is not a post about why someone would want to deploy Oracle with a mix of files with varying support for asynchronous I/O. It is just a peek at how Oracle10g handles it. This blog post is a continuation of yesterday’s topic about analyzing DBWR I/O activity with strace(1). I’ve said many times before that [...]

Oracle: Kevin Closson's Oracle Blog

RAC Expert or Clusters Expert?

Introducing the Oracle SMP Expert. What is a Spinlock? I am not joking when I tell you that I met an individual last year that billed himself as an “Oracle SMP expert”. That is fine and dandy, but through the course of our discussion I realized that this person had a severely limited understanding of the [...]

Oracle: Kevin Closson's Oracle Blog

PolyServe Software Solutions Receive Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Please bear with me, for personal reasons I have to blog on this press release. Open Source is Looking More Like Open Systems Lest we forget, the industry phenomenon that was Open Systems was undeniably an “Open” environment. This definition from Carnegie Mellon captures what Open Systems are/were quite well I think: A system that implements sufficient open [...]

Oracle: Kevin Closson's Oracle Blog