Presentations

This video was created circa July 2011. Click the Read More link to review the video. Version Oracle Database 11.2.0.2

Synopsis: Essentially, we probe the importance of LMS processes using DTrace. Explain why LMS should run in elevated priority. How to review deep statistics about LMS processes and much more.

You might encounter RAC wait event ‘gc cr disk read’ in 11.2 while tuning your applications in RAC environment. Let’s probe this wait event to understand why a session would wait for this wait event.

Understanding the wait event

Let’s say that a foreground process running in node 1, is trying to access a block using a SELECT statement and that block is not in the local cache. To maintain the read consistency, foreground process will require the block consistent with the query SCN. Then the sequence of operation is(simplified):

On February 14-16, I’ll be at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado for RMOUG’s Training Days Conference. This is the largest regional Oracle User Conference in North America and attracts presenters from all around the country and the globe. I’ll be presenting:

Presentation Name: Troubleshooting RAC Background Process

Abstract: RAC background process performance is critical to keep the application performance. This session will demo techniques to review the performance of RAC background processes such as LMS, LMD, LMON, etc. using various statistics and UNIX tools. The presentation will also discuss why certain background processes must run in higher priority to maintain the application performance in RAC.

Presentation Name: A Kind and Gentle Introduction to RAC

As in previous years the UKOUG allows you to create a personalized agenda for the upcoming conference. To give you a flavour for some of the excellent presentations and to encourage you to register I’ve reproduced mine below, as with previous years this is a ideal wishlist, I’ll probably “die” halfway through various days and [...]

While Oracle OpenWorld is still hot in our memories, I’m going to be presenting two of my OOW11 sessions at the Toronto Oracle User Group’s DD Day 2011 on 28-Oct-2011 — in just a bit over 2 weeks. Last time I presented for TOUG at their summer meeting in 2008 which makes it a tad [...]

I will be talking about “Administering Parallel Execution in RAC” with demos on Sunday morning 9AM-10AM (session id 28060). This is part of IOUG RAC SIG presentation series. You would enjoy the content and demos I have prepared.

I know, it is too early, but hoping to see you there!
BTW, if you have attended my RAC Advanced Troubleshooting class series, please don’t hesitate to introduce yourself when we meet.

Session details:
Session ID: 28060
Session Title: IOUG: Administering Parallel Execution in Oracle RAC
Venue / Room: Moscone West- 2005
Date and Time: 10/2/11, 9:00 – 10:00

Update: I just completed this session in IOUG. Thank you for coming, if you were in the room.
You can download the pdf file from
PX execution in RAC

I will be conducting a 1-hour deep dive session about RAC LMS process (and about LGWR processes too if time permits) using advanced UNIX utilities. Read Tanel’s blog entry for details:
RAC hack session

See you there!

You probably aware of 1 day event happening on July 7th Thursday 9AM-5PM EDT (virtually and physically). I will be talking about advanced UNIX tools to debug issues. You can find details of 1-day event here

Here is the outline of my presentation:

Advanced tools and techniques in Unix environment – Riyaj Shamsudeen – 07/07/2011, 3:15pm – 4:00pm EDT

Unix environments provides rich set of tools to debug performance issues. Even if the issue is complex to understand, if we use right tool for the job, we can identify the root cause of an issue quickly. In this presentation, the speaker will demo tools such as truss/strace, pfiles, pmap, prstat, vmstat, mpstat etc to show how you can debug complex issues. The speaker will also introduce Solaris/dtrace to understand performance issues.

Why not join us?

I will be delivering an intense, advanced 2-week RAC training seminar in Aug 22-26 and Sep 19-23 with numerous demos, dumps and scripts. We will meet 4 hours per day, in a virtual world, 8AM-12 Noon Pacific time for those two weeks. Tanel has written has a great blog post about this seminar series Advanced RAC training.

If you like my presentations about RAC and performance tuning, you will love my seminar series. You will gain better understanding about RAC internals, and you will be able to advance your debugging and performance tuning skills attending my seminar series.

Join me and Let’s explore RAC further.

I will be presenting in IOUG Webinar on Thursday June 30, 2011 11AM-12Noon CDT. Hope you can join me.
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I know, I have not been blogging more actively, but I have been working on books and few presentations lately. Hopefully, you will see more blog entries soon.
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