Off the top of my head, one performance improvement you will want to read about is Huge Pages. Pythian has a good writeup on configuring them http://www.pythian.com/news/1326/performance-tuning-hugepages-in-linux/ (disclosure, they are also our DBAs)
- Justin Lintz On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working in an environment that is beating some Oracle databases really > hard. Lots of transactions with a 15 second hard deadline on the entire > high level (not RDBMS) transaction. I have done a lot of work with DBAs > in the past doing performance tuning, so naturally I have put myself right > in the middle of it here. None of the DBAs here seem to have a strong > background in performance tuning at the OS interface level and they > haven't been working closely with the systems administrator(s). They also > seem to be really cynical about Oracle support, maybe for a few reasons. > That's not my problem. > > So, with that introduction, I'm looking for pointers to good articles on > tuning Oracle 10 & 11 on RHEL 5. I've already spent several hours > searching and reading online, it's a bit like drinking from a firehose. > I'm asking here hoping that someone can point me to some good high > information content references. In addition to the actual OS parameters, > I may need to feed some Oracle configuration info to them as well. > > -- Matt > It's not what I know that counts. > It's what I can remember in time to use. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
