Re: RAC PARALLEL

I'm surprised no one mentioned this.  If this is 11g there is a parameter
called parallel_force_local.  Make sure this is set to true.  If not, you
can end up running parallel operations on remote nodes, which will both
adversely affect operations on other nodes, but will also cause massive gc
waits when data is returned unless you have a very high speed interconnect
(ie, at least 10 gigabit).  On 10g this is done by setting the parallel
groups and such, I would have to look it up to find the exact details.
As others have mentioned, it is unlikely that parallel is a good idea on
OLTP, but but some of the other parameters you need to look at are
parallel_min_servers, parallel_max_servers.  I have found that setting the
parallel_min_servers saves a lot of time in the startup of parallel queries
and parallel_max_servers will help keep the load down at high usage times.

(note: resent because I overquoted a few minutes ago).


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