Archive for October, 2010

What’s in a voting disk?

October 29, 2010  |   11g,Blog,Oracle database internals,Performance tuning,RAC   |     |   5 Comments

Introduction In RAC, CSSD processes (Cluster Services Synchronization Daemon) monitor the health of RAC nodes employing two distinct heart beats: Network heart beat and Disk heart beat. Healthy nodes will have continuous network and disk heartbeats exchanged between the nodes. Break in heart beat indicates a possible error scenario. There are few different scenarios possible with missing heart beats: Network heart beat is successful, but disk heart beat is missed. Disk heart beat is successful, but ...

DOUG 2010 Presentation

October 06, 2010  |   Blog,CBO,EBS11i,Performance tuning,Presentations   |     |   2 Comments

You can find pdf version of the presentation here: Performance tuning - for developers . Feel free to ask questions in the comments. Thank you Mary Elizabeth Mcneely for the opportunity to talk in the Dallas Oracle User Group technology meetup.