RE: 10g RAC using raw devices - curiousity question

  • From: <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <usn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:19:48 -0500

Fair enough.  What is the risk potential and how much is it growing? Also how 
are these specific parameters affecting the risk potential?

Would you agree that research and testing these changes and applying them ONLY 
for a specific logon session/username limits the risk to the rest of the system?

Would you agree that "some" risk is acceptable to decrease run times when the 
queries are not modifiable directly and the business requires the processes to 
run within a specific window of time?

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Klier [mailto:usn@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:29 AM
To: Taylor Christopher - Nashville
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 10g RAC using raw devices - curiousity question

Trouble is, that most of those notes and underscore-parameter-manifested events 
are made for special purposes, to work around bugs and specific issues. You are 
exposed to special and not regression-tested source code. With every parameter 
you are growing the rist exponential...

Do as Oracle says: Use them only under supervision of Oracle Support.
You might have issues on the other end of the product without knowing why and 
where.

And in general, IMHO narrowing down the freedom of the CBO ist in 99% of the 
cases a problem-maker, not a problem-solver.

Regards
Martin

Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> What is the concern, and what about it concerns you if I were to move it to 
> production?
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Klier [mailto:usn@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 5:07 PM
> To: Taylor Christopher - Nashville
> Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 10g RAC using raw devices - curiousity question
> 
> Uahhh
> =:-O
> 
> For a sandbox, it's a brave approach. Hope this isn't production.
> 
> Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
>> alter session set workarea_size_policy=manual; alter session set 
>> sort_area_size=1073741824; alter session set 
>> hash_area_size=1073741824; alter session set 
>> "_complex_view_merging"=FALSE;  --- found on Metalink for a different 
>> perf problem & still testing alter session set 
>> "_sort_multiblock_read_count"=256;  --- set for workarea_size_policy 
>> manual alter session set "_hash_multiblock_io_count"=256; --- set for 
>> workarea_size_policy manual alter session set 
>> "_unnest_subquery"=FALSE;  --- found on Metalink for a different perf 
>> problem & still testing alter session set 
>> "_optimizer_use_histograms"=false;  --- Current statistics gathering 
>> strategy needs work alter session set 
>> "_optimizer_squ_bottomup"=false;
>> --- Metalink Note:
>> 1118446.1
>> alter session set "_optimizer_sortmerge_join_enabled"=false;
>> ---Metalink
>> Note: 444609.1
>> alter session set "_optimizer_join_sel_sanity_check" = true; --- 
>> alter session set "_always_semi_join" = off; alter session set 
>> "_optimizer_max_permutations"=80000; --- alter session set 
>> "_OPTIMIZER_COST_BASED_TRANSFORMATION"=EXHAUSTIVE;
>> ---Metalink Note: 567354.1 -- testing alter session set 
>> "_newsort_enabled"=false; --Metalink Bug 6817844.8
>> -- testing, zero effect observed
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