I am still interested in this. Martic, sure lets' ignore the waits, but real times speak for themselves. +50% in execution time. And the fact that I've confirmed that L1 block ownership is all from the same instance is very strange. Almost smells like a bug. I can't even begin to imagine the nightmare of trying to explain this to Oracle. -- Christo Kutrovsky Database/System Administrator The Pythian Group The Pythian Group On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:02:23 -0800 (PST), Martic Zoran <zoran_martic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christo, > > I could not reproduce the same CPU time for ASM and > non-ASM tablespaces in all mine environments. > I have only Solaris/HP-UX environments and so cannot > test Linux. > > It could be OS specific of course. This is why I > mentioned many times my environment and what I tested. > > I am not using any specific parameter. > Maybe tuned a little bit interconnection between nodes > in the past and that is all. > > In your case you need to tune waits because that is > what is the different in your case. > Nothing to do with the CPU usage because it is the > same. > I assume your test is far from the real scenario? > > Maybe you just proved when pushing with very high > speed DML from both nodes then the collisions on > blocks are more frequent and so pushing RAC to the end > where performances starting to drop because of global > cache. > This is very natural. As faster you push both sides of > RAC you are going to pay the price. > In this particular case old non-ASSM with two > freelists gave you better results. > > I assume your HW/SW/interconnect environment may cause > these things. You should be aware about the RAC tuning > and global cache issues with bad interconnection. > > Regards, > Zoran > > --- Christo Kutrovsky <kutrovsky.oracle@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > So right now we're basically lost? > > > > - We dont know why ASSM is using less CPU in > > Martic's case and not in mine > > - We dont know why ASSM is not working as expected > > in my RAC test > > case, and not in his. > > > > Any ideas ? > > > > Martic, why dont you post all your non-default > > parameters ? Could it > > be something OS specific, i did not see any LINUX > > results or I missed > > it ? > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Christo Kutrovsky Database/System Administrator The Pythian Group -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l