Re: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning.

I laughed out loud, while waiting for my hour glass to go away! RBG ----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:26 PM

> Our own esteemed Paul Baumgartel wants to know how our
> equally esteemed Kevin would have handled the MetaCrack
> announcement.
>
>
>
> There are several possibilities, depending on what is ACTUALLY
> going on in the Armani Sweatshop on Ellison Lane.
>
> Scenario One:
>
> ATTENTION: Oracle Customers -- Special DBA Announcement.
>
> PASS THIS TO YOUR DBA!
>
> No doubt you have recently seen performance on MetaLink do
> down like a career hooker on a Presidential candidate. There
> is a reason for this, and here it is:
>
> We had a cowboy DBA who stayed up too late one night reading
> "Oracle Latches, Waits, and Blinking Lights" by Tom Swift.
> (Doubtless you are aware of this classic review of oracle internals.)
> Unfortunately, aforementioned cowboy badly misinterpreted the settings of
> the _db_block_write_flush_or_scan_depth_increment_rigidity parameter
> and really screwed up our systems. After out "Global IT Group" got on
> the problem ( ok, the "other" cowboy rookie DBA we have ) he tried
> everything
> he could, and actually worsened things by setting the
> "_please_make_it_better"
> parameter to TRUE, as opposed to IMMEDIATE. As you may know, this undoc
> parameter only works in TRUE mode for Oracle8, and MetaLink is still
running
> on Oracle 7.2.3.4.2.
>
> Finally, we called in someone competent from our front line support. She
had
> actually quit, and was packing her desk in disgust (at not being allowed
to
> properly address customer requests ever since the "iTar" process performed
> auto-deletes on all online requests) but was stopped by an alert middle
> manager
> for "one last favor". After she set the "_divert_funds_from_marketing"
> parameter
> to TRUE, everything came back for a handful of minutes.
>
> During this brief operational period, we had a "staggering" number of
> requests
> hit our front end webservers ( Apache on Linux-based Palm Pilots ) and
> MetaLink
> could not respond to the seven requests simultaneously.
>
> We are currently throwing hardware at the problem, and hope to be able to
> provide
> roughly the same level of service you'd expect at a local Seven-Eleven any
> day now.
>
> So Long, and Thanks for All the Power Units!!!!
>
> ################ END METALINK MESSAGE
> #######################################
>
>
> There are other scenarios, but my hourglass just returned from my metalink
> search, so i've got to go now.........
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> And if you were running a comparable system, what would *you* say?
>
>
> Paul Baumgartel
> InstiPro, Inc.
> paul.baumgartel_at_instipro.com
> 212 813-0829 x103 (office)
> 917 549-4717 (mobile)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:51 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Man, these guys just invite the wise-ass comment, don't they? Such as:
>
> Well maybe if the product worked better/was less confusing/had better
> documentation we wouldn't all be in Metalink!
> Oh no! If 4 new servers brought the system to its knees just think how
bad
> it'll be when the rest of the hardware arrives!
> 4 new top-of-the-line servers, just think what that'll do to their power
> unit charges!
>
> Plus I can't rid myself of the image of us all 'staggering' to Metalink
for
> help.
>
> Jim
>
> >>> dgoulet_at_vicr.com 02/27/01 01:21PM >>>
> For those interested, right from the horses mouth, or other orifice as you
> desire:
>
> News & Notes
> MetaLink Performance - An Update
>
>
>
> We apologize for the slow response times recently on MetaLink. All over
> the
> world our customers are coming to and using this valuable
> knowledge base in staggering numbers. Our Global IT team are working
these
> performance issues as their number one priority.
>
> What is Being Done
> This week four new front-end web servers were brought on line to help
> manage
> the load. Additional hardware has been purchased and will
> arrive soon which will make a significant improvement in performance.
>
> We appreciate your patience during this time of significant growth in
> MetaLink
> usage.
>
> Thanks,
> The MetaLink Team
>
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