Re: Excessive Logical and Physical I/O

Brian Peasland <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:<40635826.D851B05C_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>...
> > The "if no
> > one is complaining" presupposes a well-adminstered site to begin with.
> > My experience probably is skewed, but it seems to me most places are
> > set up by consultants/vendors who may or may not be good, then left to
> > the, er, less experienced, or are barely managed to be set up by those
> > with no ODBA experience.
>
>
> There is the case that a user doesn't even know that they are
> experiencing pain. For instance, it takes 10 minutes to sign with
> SQL*Plus. Most of us would cringe at the thought. But some users just
> got used to it taking that long, kind of like how we get used to how
> long it takes for Windows to boot. A more knowledable DBA comes in one
> day and says "this ain't right", and fixes the problem. The user's
> weren't experiecing pain before. But that is why I also specified 'joy'.
> When the more knowledgable DBA fixes the problem, the user's experience
> joy over resolution.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian

EPC_DISABLED, or something like that?

Oh man, that brings back memories of a VMS usergroup session I went to, um, decades ago. Large hall, hundreds of sysadms. Speaker asks people to raise hands if their users logins take more than a minute, then 2, 5, 10, 20, 30 IIRC. Several people still had their hands raised.

jg

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