Tag: metrics
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Hadoop performance troubleshooting with stack tracing, an introduction.
Hadoop performance troubleshooting with stack tracing, an introduction. Topic: This post is about profiling and performance tuning of distributed workloads and in particular Hadoop applications. You will learn of a profiler application we have developed and how it has successfully been applied to tuning Sqoop to improve the throughput of data transfer from Oracle to
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Latest updates to PerfSheet4, a tool for Oracle AWR data mining and visualization
Latest updates to PerfSheet4, a tool for Oracle AWR data mining and visualization Topic: This post is about the latest updates to PerfSheet4 v3.7 (February 2015). PerfSheet4 is a tool aimed at DBAs and Oracle performance analysts. It provides a simplified interface to extract and visualize AWR time series data using Excel pivot charts. Why
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A Closer Look at CALIBRATE_IO
A Closer Look at CALIBRATE_IO Topic: This blog entry is about investigating Oracle’s DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO Spoiler: For quantitative analysis of storage performance and in particular for measuring random read I/O in Oracle, I’d rather advise the use tools that allow generating test workloads in a controlled manner, in a way that can be understood and measured