Here's a sample chart. These are generated every morning and available via our intranet. http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/yapppack_chart.png Hmmm... Looks like someone is doing a lot of commits at 02:30 and 05:15. Jared Joan Hsieh <joan.hsieh@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: ml-errors@xxxxxxxxxxx 01/22/2004 09:19 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L@xxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: Re: What to look for in STATSPACK report Jared, I played YAPPPACK quite often some time ago. I like it very much. But somehow I failed to generate the gif file from the csv file as sample shown. Can someone shade me some light on this? I tied very hard to make the graphs from the csv file but just don't know how. Thanks, Joan Jared Still wrote: > > You will find a utility add on for statspack at Mogens company site, > www.miracleas.dk. It is called YAPPPACK. > > You can use YAPPPACK ( notice the 3 P's, it is not a typo ) to generate > response time graphs for your databases. > > There are many different numbers to look at in a statspack report, but > for day to day monitoring, I find them fairly useless. I mean really, > who's gonna read all that stuff? > > Or spend the rest of his life writing a genetic heuristic > artificially intelligent algorithm that is smart enough to determine > that something is out of bounds for a particular database? > > Use YAPPPACK to track response times. When response times spike > abnormally, then dig into the statspack data. > > JMO, > > Jared > > On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 23:54, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: > > Hi Helmut, > > > > There are so many opinions about this that it's hard to point at one > > specific document or recommendation. If anything, start with stuff > > written by Graham Wood (who has done a good deal of the work on it), > > Bjorn Engsig (ditto), or such guys. Also, Tom Kyte has something about > > it in his new book, so go look on asktom.oracle.com for his opinions > > about it. > > > > If you hope to find threshold numbers for certain values, etc.... then > > someone would have automated it a loooong time ago. There can be two > > reasons for this not having happened: It depends on the installation, > > situation, etc. - or a lot of system-level measurements are in reality > > useless. That's pretty much my opinion, but thankfully a lot of much > > smarter people disagree with me. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Mogens > > > > Daiminger, Helmut wrote: > > > > >Hi! > > > > > >We want to introduce a performance monitoring policy here. We are using the > > >STATSPACK utility. > > > > > >What are sections in statspack reports to look for? What are threshold > > >numbers for these values? > > > > > >Does anybody have any power points or papers about it? > > > > > >This is 9.2 on HP-UX. > > > > > >Thanks, > > >Helmut > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > > -- > > Author: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mogens_N=F8rgaard?= > > INET: mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: ListGuru@xxxxxxxxxxx (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Jared Still > INET: jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: ListGuru@xxxxxxxxxxx (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Joan Hsieh INET: joan.hsieh@xxxxxxxxx Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@xxxxxxxxxxx (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).