Thanks to all for you reply, it made it very clear that 1. A careful partitioning strategy is essential (for non-trivial workload), and 2. shedding some light on the "thought process" required to estimate where time would be spent , and 3. Hinting Latest/ 11g remastering enhancements you guys are awesome. -Vasu On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:00 AM, K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Vasu. The benefits are higher than the cluster waits issue. With the new > resource mastering algorithms each partitions can be mastered locally and > you will have reduced inter instance messages. Resource mastering and > remastering happens at segment level and partitions have big impact on > this. Have a look at chapter 11 of my rac book if you have it handy. If not > search for "rac resource mastering" in google you might find some > interesting hits. > > > On Monday, July 9, 2012, Vasu wrote: > >> Common sense says "data usage on RAC nodes- aligned to table partitions >> " should do better. >> Say, a table list partitioned on state column, thus dividing Txn activity >> of major states such as NY and CA into 2 different partitions. >> App is serviced by 2 node RAC, and all NY customers are served thru >> node-1 >> , and CA customers thru node-2 >> Simple data load comparison shows that cluster-waits are more in the mixed >> workload scheme. >> >> My question is : Has anyone seen significant/dramatic performance gains >> by >> aligning application usage to table partitioning ? >> If so, what was the gain % (though it would largely depend on the workload >> , h/w etc ) >> >> Thanks in advance. >> -Vasu >> >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- -Vasu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l