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NetComrade wrote:
> Well,
>
> We've tried to make a 'transactional' snapshot, where the snapshot is
> not truncated when being refreshed (but sticking it into a refresh
> group). However, the queries running against the snapshot take almost
> as long to run as for the snapshot to refresh, which is not
> acceptable. Right now we are looking for alternatives (making snapshot
> a table, and updating selected rows), however, wanted to know if there
> is anyway to speed up, or it's just a function of slow IO.
>
> Regular query takes seconds to exe and results in
> 2227 consistent gets
> 36 physical reads
> 0 redo size
>
> Same query while snapshot is running:
> 70177 consistent gets
> 10246 physical reads
> 39364 redo size
> .......
> We use Oracle 8.1.7.4 and 9.2.0.5 on Solaris 2.7 boxes
> remove NSPAM to email
before doing anything else, I'd upgrade Slowlaris to at least 2.8, and
preferably 2.9. 2.7 was a hack to get a 64 bit os out of the door as
quickly as possible, and is now extremely out of date.
Steve. Received on Wed Feb 16 2005 - 11:07:55 CST