Mohan,
You
brought laughter to the entire team here!!! Great. Keep it
up.
Rao
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From: Mohan,
Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:26
PM
To: Multiple recipients of
list ORACLE-L
Subject:
MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning.
Our own esteemed Paul
Baumgartel wants to know how our
equally esteemed Kevin would have
handled the MetaCrack
announcement.
There are several
possibilities, depending on what is ACTUALLY going on in the Armani
Sweatshop on Ellison Lane.
Scenario One:
ATTENTION: Oracle
Customers -- Special DBA Announcement.
PASS THIS TO YOUR
DBA!
No doubt you have recently
seen performance on MetaLink do down like a career hooker on a
Presidential candidate. There is a reason for this, and here it
is:
We had a cowboy DBA who
stayed up too late one night reading "Oracle Latches, Waits, and Blinking
Lights" by Tom Swift. (Doubtless you are aware of this classic
review of oracle internals.)
Unfortunately, aforementioned cowboy
badly misinterpreted the settings of the
_db_block_write_flush_or_scan_depth_increment_rigidity
parameter
and really screwed up our systems. After
out "Global IT Group" got on the problem ( ok, the "other" cowboy
rookie DBA we have ) he tried everything he could, and actually worsened things
by setting the "_please_make_it_better" parameter to TRUE, as opposed to
IMMEDIATE. As you may know, this undoc parameter only works in TRUE mode for
Oracle8, and MetaLink is still running on Oracle 7.2.3.4.2.
Finally, we called in
someone competent from our front line support. She had actually quit, and was
packing her desk in disgust (at not being allowed to properly address customer
requests ever since the "iTar" process performed auto-deletes on all online
requests) but was stopped by an alert middle manager for "one last favor".
After she set the "_divert_funds_from_marketing" parameter to TRUE, everything came
back for a handful of minutes.
During this brief
operational period, we had a "staggering" number of requests hit our front end
webservers ( Apache on Linux-based Palm Pilots ) and
MetaLink
could not respond to the seven requests
simultaneously.
We are currently throwing
hardware at the problem, and hope to be able to provide roughly the same level of
service you'd expect at a local Seven-Eleven any day now.
So Long, and Thanks for All
the Power Units!!!!
################ END
METALINK MESSAGE #######################################
There are other scenarios,
but my hourglass just returned from my metalink
search, so i've got to go
now.........
