- It’s Not a Record But It is the Most Interesting TPC-H. No Manly Man SAN Here.
- Hard Drives Are Arcane Technology. Why Can’t I Realize Their Full Potential?
- Over-Configuring DBWR Processes Part IV
- Over-Configuring DBWR Processes Part III
- Over-Configuring DBWR Processes Part II
- Over-Configuring DBWR Processes Part I
- Don’t Forget ARCH When Pondering Redo Performance
- Manly Men Only use Solid State Disk for Redo. LGWR I/O is Simple But Not LGWR Processing
- Nearly Free or Not, GridSQL for EnterpriseDB is Simply Better Than RAC
- Application Server Benchmark Proves PostgreSQL Is The Best Enterprise Database Server!
- Oracle Doesn’t Scale Without Multiple Log Writer Processes.
- Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle With 64 Bit Linux - Part I. What About An x86 Port On EM64T Hardware?
- It’s OK to Blame the Storage. Oracle Problems When “Storage” is Just Fine.
- Multiple Buffer Pools with Oracle
- Cache Hit Ratio. Who Needs It?
- What Performs Better, Direct I/O or Direct I/O? There is No Such Thing As a Stupid Question!
- Gettimeofday() and Oracle on AMD Processors
- Using Linux sched_setaffinity(2) To Bind Oracle Processes To CPUs
- Oracle Shared Latches, CAS, Porting. No mention of ASM?
- The 60% Allocation “Rule”. Oracle TPC-H Proves Hard Drives Are Still Round!
- DBWR Efficiency, AIO, I/O Libraries with ASM.
- TPC-C Result Proves DB2 is “Better” Than Oracle with ASM
- Marketing Efforts Prove SunFire T2000 Is Not Fit For Oracle.
- Oracle Performance on Sun’s “Rock” Processors and Oracle Scalability
- A Tip About the ORION I/O Generator Tool
- Using OProfile to Monitor Kernel Overhead on Linux With Oracle
- Analyzing Oracle10g Database Writer I/O Activity on Linux
- Analyzing Asynchronous I/O Support with Oracle10g
- Using Oracle Disk Manager to Monitor Database I/O
- Using the cpuid(1) Linux Command for In-depth Processor Information
- Busy Idle Processes. Huh? The AIX KPROC process called “wait”.
- Censored: SAP Benchmark Fire-Tests Operating Systems. A Bit About RAC Too.
- Censored: Audited TPC Results Prove RAC is Faster Than IBM Mainframes
Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases
Oracle-related Platform, Storage and Clustering Topics (with the occasional rant)
