Thank
you Sir!
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>
(we
almost used Sunguard to cover our Sequent servers, but they never
really
went
down enough to merit the cost, but...Sunguard appeared to have the
most
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>"adult" setup)
<FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Rao, Maheswara
[mailto:Maheswara.Rao_at_sungardp3.com]Sent: Tuesday, February 27,
2001 4:58 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-LSubject: RE: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and
Droning.
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Mohan,
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">You
brought laughter to the entire team here!!! Great. Keep it
up.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Rao
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
<FONT
color=navy><A title="Return Mail Address"
href="mailto:Maheswara.Rao_at_SunGardP3.com">Maheswara.Rao_at_SunGardP3.com<FONT
color=navy><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
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<FONT face=Tahoma color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----From: Mohan,
Ross [mailto:MohanR_at_stars-smi.com]<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:26
PMTo: Multiple recipients of
list ORACLE-LSubject:
MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning.
<FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>Our own esteemed Paul
Baumgartel wants to know how our<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">equally esteemed Kevin would have
handled the MetaCrack<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">announcement. <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>There are several
possibilities, depending on what is ACTUALLY<FONT
color=black> <SPAN
style="COLOR: navy"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <FONT color=black
size=2>going on in the Armani
Sweatshop on Ellison Lane.<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>Scenario One:
<SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>ATTENTION: Oracle
Customers -- Special DBA Announcement.<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="COLOR: navy"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>PASS THIS TO YOUR
DBA!
<SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>No doubt you have recently
seen performance on MetaLink do<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">down like a career hooker on a
Presidential candidate. There<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">is a reason for this, and here it
is:
<SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>We had a cowboy DBA who
stayed up too late one night reading<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">"Oracle Latches, Waits, and Blinking
Lights" by Tom Swift.<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">(Doubtless you are aware of this classic
review of oracle internals.)<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">Unfortunately, aforementioned cowboy
badly misinterpreted the settings of<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">the
_db_block_write_flush_or_scan_depth_increment_rigidity
parameter
<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">and really screwed up our systems. After
out "Global IT Group" got on<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">the problem ( ok, the "other" cowboy
rookie DBA we have ) he tried everything<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">he could, and actually worsened things
by setting the "_please_make_it_better"<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">parameter to TRUE, as opposed to
IMMEDIATE. As you may know, this undoc<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">parameter only works in TRUE mode for
Oracle8, and MetaLink is still running<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">on Oracle 7.2.3.4.2.<FONT
color=black> <SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>Finally, we called in
someone competent from our front line support. She had<FONT
color=black> <FONT color=black
size=2>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<FONT
color=black> <FONT color=black
size=2>to TRUE, everything came
back for a handful of minutes. <SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>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
<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">could not respond to the seven requests
simultaneously. <SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>We are currently throwing
hardware at the problem, and hope to be able to provide<FONT
color=black> <FONT color=black
size=2>roughly the same level of
service you'd expect at a local Seven-Eleven any day now. <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>So Long, and Thanks for All
the Power Units!!!!
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style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">################ END
METALINK MESSAGE #######################################<FONT
color=black> <SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
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color=black size=3> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=2>There are other scenarios,
but my hourglass just returned from my metalink<FONT
color=black> <FONT color=black
size=2>search, so i've got to go
now.........
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