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Re: Consistent reads against a heavily updated table (snapshot)

From: Steve <ThisOne_at_Aint.valid>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:07:55 +1300
Message-ID: <cuvulb$n8s$2@lust.ihug.co.nz>


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2.8, and preferably 2.9. 2.7 was a hack to get a 64 bit os out of the door as quickly as possible, and is now extremely out of date.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

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