Re: Performance queries

Kyle had to stop working on Ashmon when he joined Embarcadero. Fortunately he 
could show/prove that he did not touch it once he started working for 
Embarcadero, else they would have claimed it as their property. You can 
download it from http://www.perfvision.com/ashmon.php.
Marcin Przepiorowski has made changes to Kyle's original V2 ( dated 2008-03-30 
) as V2.1 and V2.2 and posted those on the Ashmasters site 
http://ashmasters.com/ash-simulation/
I have made extensive modifications as well and use it at two client sites. I 
have not published my modifications. Firstly because I am still not done with 
it ( I am afraid it will be a "work in progress" forever ) and when I 
contemplated posting what I had done, Marcin had posted V2.2 which, if I'm not 
mistaken is a 180˚ departure ( the repository polls the targets rather than the 
targets sending data to the repository ) and I did not want to confuse the 
situation by posting a 2.3 or 3.1 version which reverses that again. If anyone 
is interested in "my" version contact me by e-mail.
I shall present about Ashmon and my experiences with it at the UKOUG conference.

To answer Niall's question, Yes, it supports 9i although I do not have any 
experience with it on 9i.
  
On 2011-08-24, at 4:12 AM, Niall Litchfield wrote:

> Hi Bill
> It *sounds* like you are saying that the server is on CPU all the time 
> (though 100% utilized could mean other things). To troubleshoot this I start 
> with an OS tool to grab the top cpu consuming O/S processes (or threads in 
> windows). 
> I then run the following query to grab the active SQL 
> 
> select
>      s.sid
> ,    s.serial#
> ,    p.spid ospid
> ,    q.sql_text
> ,    s.sql_child_number
> from
> v$process p
> ,   v$session s
> ,   v$sqlarea q
> where
> p.addr = s.paddr
> and     s.sql_id=q.sql_id(+)
> and     p.spid = &os_process_id;
> 
> It may be that there isn't active SQL but this is rare in my experience (and 
> usually turns out to be session waiting on a PL/SQL loop anyway. You'll also 
> want to run statspack and take a look at the top sql there - though in 9i 
> unfortunately there isn't an 'ordered by elapsed time' section. Statspack 
> will also give you top 5 timed events as well. 
> 
> Bear in mind that once you've identified your top sessions - either via 
> TOP/process monitor etc - or via the application or some other means ("how 
> come it's always Sue in accounts ringing to complain about performance?" ) 
> then 9i is just as susceptible as any other release since 7.3 to the Method-R 
> approach.(Identify sessions, gather diagnostic data, profile, resolve issue 
> and predict performance increase). method-r.com or the other trace file 
> profilers out there will be useful here.   
> 
> Finally I've had some success with Tanel Poder's session snapper on 9i 
> (though I've also had failures on 9i as well - tool ran but not in a timely 
> fashion), you can grab that tool at 
> http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle-scripts-and-tools/session-snapper
> 
> I know that Kyle Hailey was working on a simulated Active Session History 
> tool (www.ashmasters.com) but I'm not sure 
>  a)  if it supports 9i
>  b)  what the state of it currently is and 
>  c)  which of Kyle's sites are current. 
> This is a plea for Kyle to come out of the woodwork really and let us know 
> what he has made available non-commercially and where! 
>

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