Extremely slow inserts/updates reported after HW upgrade...

Hi gyus,
I'll try to be as descriptive as I can. It's this project in which we have to move circa 6 mission critical (24x7) and mostly OLTP databases from MS Windows 2003 (DB on local disks) to HP-UX IA (CA metrocluster, HP XP 12000 disk array) - all ORA10gR2 10.2.0.4. And everything was perfect until we moved this XYZ database...
Almost immediately users reported "considerable" performance degradation. According to 3rd party application log they get almost 40 secs. instead of previously recorded 10.
We, I mean Oracle and HP specialists, haven't noticed/recorded any significant peeks/bottlenecks (RAM, CPU, Disk I/O).
Feel free to check 3 AWR reports and the init.ora at [http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0269c9bc606747b47f7ec40ada4772a6e04e75f6e8ebb871]
1_awrrpt_standard.txt - standard workload during 8 hours (peek hours are from 8-12AM)
2_awrrpt_2hrs_ca.txt - standard workload during 2 peek hours (8-10)
3_awrrpt_2hrs_noca.txt - standard workload during 2 peek hours (10-12) with CA disk mirroring disabled
Of course, I've checked the ADDM reports - and first, I'd like to ask why ADDM keeps on reporting the following (on all database instances on this
cluster node):
FINDING 1: 100% impact (310 seconds)
Significant virtual memory paging was detected on the host operating system.
RECOMMENDATION 1: Host Configuration, 100% benefit (310 seconds)
Is it just some kind of false alarm (like we use to get on MS Windows)? Both nodes are running on 32gigs of RAM
with roughly more than 10gigs constantly free.
Second, as ADDM reported:
FINDING 2: 44% impact (135 seconds)
Waits on event "log file sync" while performing COMMIT and ROLLBACK operations
were consuming significant database time.
we've tried to split CA disk mirroring, using RAID 10 for redo log file disks etc. etc. No substantial performance gain was reported from users (though I've noticed some in AWR reports).
Despite confusing app. users' feedback I'm nearly sure that our bottleneck are redo log file disks. Why? Previously (old HW) we had 1-3 ms avg wait on log file sync and log file parallel write and now (new HW, RAID5/RAID10 we've tested both) - it's 8 ms or even more. We were able to get 2ms only with CA switched off (HP etrocluster
disk array mirroring).
And that brings up two new questions:
1. Does redo log group mirroring (2 on 2 separate disks vs. 1 on 1 disk) have any
significant impact on abovementioned wait events? I mean what performance gain
could I expect when I drop all "secondary" redo log members?
2. Why do we get almost identical response times when we run bulk insert/update tests (say
1000000 rows) against old and new DB/HW?
Thanks in advance,
tOPsEEK
Edited by: smutny on 1.11.2009 17:39
Edited by: smutny on 1.11.2009 17:46

Hi again,
so here's the actual AWR report (1 minute window while the most problematic operation took place). I think it's becoming clear we have to deal with slow redo log writes...
WORKLOAD REPOSITORY report for
DB Name         DB Id    Instance     Inst Num Release     RAC Host
...            294736156 ...                 1 10.2.0.4.0  NO  ...
              Snap Id      Snap Time      Sessions Curs/Sess
Begin Snap:      1254 02-Nov-09 10:07:45        91      46.4
  End Snap:      1255 02-Nov-09 10:08:47        91      46.4
   Elapsed:                1.04 (mins)
   DB Time:                0.51 (mins)
Cache Sizes
~~~~~~~~~~~                       Begin        End
               Buffer Cache:       576M       576M  Std Block Size:         8K
           Shared Pool Size:       912M       912M      Log Buffer:    14,372K
Load Profile
~~~~~~~~~~~~                            Per Second       Per Transaction
                  Redo size:            163,781.94              4,575.45
              Logical reads:              1,677.15                 46.85
              Block changes:              1,276.32                 35.66
             Physical reads:                  1.99                  0.06
            Physical writes:                  1.16                  0.03
                 User calls:                426.41                 11.91
                     Parses:                 20.74                  0.58
                Hard parses:                  0.19                  0.01
                      Sorts:                  2.38                  0.07
                     Logons:                  0.00                  0.00
                   Executes:                386.76                 10.80
               Transactions:                 35.80
  % Blocks changed per Read:   76.10    Recursive Call %:    31.51
Rollback per transaction %:    0.00       Rows per Sort:   369.98
Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
            Buffer Nowait %:  100.00       Redo NoWait %:  100.00
            Buffer  Hit   %:   99.88    In-memory Sort %:  100.00
            Library Hit   %:   99.90        Soft Parse %:   99.07
         Execute to Parse %:   94.64         Latch Hit %:  100.00
Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %:  112.50     % Non-Parse CPU:   99.11
Shared Pool Statistics        Begin    End
             Memory Usage %:   88.90   88.87
    % SQL with executions>1:   98.74   99.39
  % Memory for SQL w/exec>1:   95.35   97.75
Top 5 Timed Events                                         Avg %Total
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                        wait   Call
Event                                 Waits    Time (s)   (ms)   Time Wait Class
log file parallel write               2,228          21     10   69.4 System I/O
log file sync                         2,220          21     10   69.2     Commit
CPU time                                             20          65.5
SQL*Net break/reset to client         2,106           1      1    3.4 Applicatio
db file sequential read                 131           0      4    1.5   User I/O
Time Model Statistics                DB/Inst: ROVEPP/rovepp  Snaps: 1254-1255
-> Total time in database user-calls (DB Time): 30.9s
-> Statistics including the word "background" measure background process
   time, and so do not contribute to the DB time statistic
-> Ordered by % or DB time desc, Statistic name
Statistic Name                                       Time (s) % of DB Time
DB CPU                                                   20.2         65.5
sql execute elapsed time                                  9.1         29.4
PL/SQL execution elapsed time                             0.3          1.0
parse time elapsed                                        0.2           .5
hard parse elapsed time                                   0.1           .5
repeated bind elapsed time                                0.0           .0
DB time                                                  30.9          N/A
background elapsed time                                  22.2          N/A
background cpu time                                       0.4          N/A
Wait Class                            DB/Inst: ROVEPP/rovepp  Snaps: 1254-1255
-> s  - second
-> cs - centisecond -     100th of a second
-> ms - millisecond -    1000th of a second
-> us - microsecond - 1000000th of a second
-> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc
                                                                  Avg
                                       %Time       Total Wait    wait     Waits
Wait Class                      Waits  -outs         Time (s)    (ms)      /txn
System I/O                      3,213     .0               22       7       1.4
Commit                          2,220     .0               21      10       1.0
Application                     2,106     .0                1       1       0.9
User I/O                          134     .0                0       4       0.1
Network                        29,919     .0                0       0      13.4
Wait Events                          DB/Inst: ROVEPP/rovepp  Snaps: 1254-1255
-> s  - second
-> cs - centisecond -     100th of a second
-> ms - millisecond -    1000th of a second
-> us - microsecond - 1000000th of a second
-> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc (idle events last)
                                                                   Avg
                                             %Time  Total Wait    wait     Waits
Event                                 Waits  -outs    Time (s)    (ms)      /txn
log file parallel write               2,228     .0          21      10       1.0
log file sync                         2,220     .0          21      10       1.0
SQL*Net break/reset to clien          2,106     .0           1       1       0.9
db file sequential read                 131     .0           0       4       0.1
control file parallel write              44     .0           0       9       0.0
db file parallel write                   44     .0           0       4       0.0
SQL*Net more data to client           3,397     .0           0       0       1.5
SQL*Net message to client            26,509     .0           0       0      11.9
control file sequential read            897     .0           0       0       0.4
SQL*Net more data from clien             13     .0           0       0       0.0
direct path write                         3     .0           0       0       0.0
SQL*Net message from client          26,510     .0       1,493      56      11.9
Streams AQ: qmn slave idle w              2     .0          55   27412       0.0
Streams AQ: qmn coordinator               4   50.0          55   13706       0.0
PL/SQL lock timer                        10  100.0          49    4897       0.0
Background Wait Events               DB/Inst: ROVEPP/rovepp  Snaps: 1254-1255
-> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc (idle events last)
                                                                   Avg
                                             %Time  Total Wait    wait     Waits
Event                                 Waits  -outs    Time (s)    (ms)      /txn
log file parallel write               2,228     .0          21      10       1.0
control file parallel write              44     .0           0       9       0.0
db file parallel write                   44     .0           0       4       0.0
control file sequential read             71     .0           0       0       0.0
rdbms ipc message                     2,412    7.7         525     218       1.1
pmon timer                               20  100.0          59    2929       0.0
Streams AQ: qmn slave idle w              2     .0          55   27412       0.0
Streams AQ: qmn coordinator               4   50.0          55   13706       0.0
Operating System Statistics           DB/Inst: ROVEPP/rovepp  Snaps: 1254-1255
Statistic                                       Total
AVG_BUSY_TIME                                     847
AVG_IDLE_TIME                                   5,362
AVG_IOWAIT_TIME                                 2,692
AVG_SYS_TIME                                      295
AVG_USER_TIME                                     549
BUSY_TIME                                       3,396
IDLE_TIME                                      21,457
IOWAIT_TIME                                    10,776
SYS_TIME                                        1,190
USER_TIME                                       2,206
LOAD                                                0
OS_CPU_WAIT_TIME                          192,401,000
RSRC_MGR_CPU_WAIT_TIME                              0
VM_IN_BYTES                                    40,960
VM_OUT_BYTES                                  335,872
PHYSICAL_MEMORY_BYTES                  34,328,276,992
NUM_CPUS                                            4
NUM_CPU_SOCKETS                                     4
Instance Activity Stats              DB/Inst: ROVEPP/rovepp  Snaps: 1254-1255
Statistic                                     Total     per Second     per Trans
CPU used by this session                        984           15.8           0.4
CPU used when call started                      344            5.5           0.2
CR blocks created                                 4            0.1           0.0
Cached Commit SCN referenced                    208            3.3           0.1
Commit SCN cached                                 0            0.0           0.0
DB time                                       2,589           41.6           1.2
DBWR checkpoint buffers written                  69            1.1           0.0
DBWR checkpoints                                  0            0.0           0.0
DBWR object drop buffers written                  0            0.0           0.0
DBWR tablespace checkpoint buffe                  0            0.0           0.0
DBWR thread checkpoint buffers w                  0            0.0           0.0
DBWR transaction table writes                     8            0.1           0.0
DBWR undo block writes                           15            0.2           0.0
IMU CR rollbacks                                  0            0.0           0.0
IMU Flushes                                   1,156           18.6           0.5
IMU Redo allocation size                    996,048       16,017.2         447.5
IMU commits                                   2,100           33.8           0.9
IMU contention                                    0            0.0           0.0
IMU ktichg flush                                  0            0.0           0.0
IMU pool not allocated                            0            0.0           0.0
IMU recursive-transaction flush                   0            0.0           0.0
IMU undo allocation size                 22,402,560      360,250.9      10,064.0
IMU- failed to get a private str                  0            0.0           0.0
Misses for writing mapping                        0            0.0           0.0
SQL*Net roundtrips to/from clien             26,480          425.8          11.9
active txn count during cleanout                 34            0.6           0.0
application wait time                           106            1.7           0.1
background checkpoints completed                  0            0.0           0.0
background checkpoints started                    0            0.0           0.0
background timeouts                             199            3.2           0.1
branch node splits                                0            0.0           0.0
buffer is not pinned count                   13,919          223.8           6.3
buffer is pinned count                       19,483          313.3           8.8
bytes received via SQL*Net from             884,016       14,215.7         397.1
bytes sent via SQL*Net to client          9,602,642      154,418.1       4,313.9
calls to get snapshot scn: kcmgs             13,641          219.4           6.1
calls to kcmgas                               3,029           48.7           1.4
calls to kcmgcs                                  56            0.9           0.0
change write time                                 8            0.1           0.0
cleanout - number of ktugct call                 42            0.7           0.0
cleanouts and rollbacks - consis                  0            0.0           0.0
cleanouts only - consistent read                  0            0.0           0.0
cluster key scan block gets                   1,100           17.7           0.5
cluster key scans                             1,077           17.3           0.5
commit batch/immediate performed                  1            0.0           0.0
commit batch/immediate requested                  1            0.0           0.0
commit cleanout failures: block                   0            0.0           0.0
commit cleanout failures: buffer                  0            0.0           0.0
commit cleanout failures: callba                  4            0.1           0.0
commit cleanout failures: cannot                  0            0.0           0.0
commit cleanouts                              9,539          153.4           4.3
commit cleanouts successfully co              9,535          153.3           4.3
commit immediate performed                        1            0.0           0.0
commit immediate requested                        1            0.0           0.0
commit txn count during cleanout                 26            0.4           0.0
concurrency wait time                             0            0.0           0.0
consistent changes                              264            4.3           0.1
consistent gets                              48,659          782.5          21.9
consistent gets - examination                26,952          433.4          12.1
consistent gets direct                            2            0.0           0.0
consistent gets from cache                   48,657          782.4          21.9
cursor authentications                            2            0.0           0.0
data blocks consistent reads - u                  4            0.1           0.0
db block changes                             79,369        1,276.3          35.7
db block gets                                55,636          894.7          25.0
db block gets direct                              3            0.1           0.0
db block gets from cache                     55,633          894.6          25.0
deferred (CURRENT) block cleanou              4,768           76.7           2.1
dirty buffers inspected                           0            0.0           0.0
enqueue conversions                              15            0.2           0.0
enqueue releases                              9,967          160.3           4.5
enqueue requests                              9,967          160.3           4.5
enqueue timeouts                                  0            0.0           0.0
enqueue waits                                     0            0.0           0.0
execute count                                24,051          386.8          10.8
failed probes on index block rec                  0            0.0           0.0
frame signature mismatch                          0            0.0           0.0
free buffer inspected                           680           10.9           0.3
free buffer requested                         1,297           20.9           0.6
heap block compress                              11            0.2           0.0
hot buffers moved to head of LRU              1,797           28.9           0.8
immediate (CR) block cleanout ap                  0            0.0           0.0
immediate (CURRENT) block cleano              2,274           36.6           1.0
index crx upgrade (positioned)                   47            0.8           0.0
index fast full scans (full)                      0            0.0           0.0
index fetch by key                           10,326          166.1           4.6
index scans kdiixs1                           6,071           97.6           2.7
leaf node 90-10 splits                           14            0.2           0.0
leaf node splits                                 18            0.3           0.0
lob reads                                         0            0.0           0.0
lob writes                                      198            3.2           0.1
lob writes unaligned                            176            2.8           0.1
logons cumulative                                 0            0.0           0.0
messages received                             2,272           36.5           1.0
messages sent                                 2,272           36.5           1.0
no buffer to keep pinned count                    0            0.0           0.0
no work - consistent read gets               21,083          339.0           9.5
opened cursors cumulative                     1,290           20.7           0.6
parse count (failures)                            0            0.0           0.0
parse count (hard)                               12            0.2           0.0
parse count (total)                           1,290           20.7           0.6
parse time cpu                                   18            0.3           0.0
parse time elapsed                               16            0.3           0.0
physical read IO requests                       124            2.0           0.1
physical read bytes                       1,015,808       16,335.0         456.3
physical read total IO requests               1,030           16.6           0.5
physical read total bytes                15,785,984      253,851.1       7,091.6
physical read total multi block                   0            0.0           0.0
physical reads                                  124            2.0           0.1
physical reads cache                            122            2.0           0.1
physical reads cache prefetch                     0            0.0           0.0
physical reads direct                             2            0.0           0.0
physical reads direct (lob)                       0            0.0           0.0
physical reads direct temporary                   0            0.0           0.0
physical reads prefetch warmup                    0            0.0           0.0
physical write IO requests                       47            0.8           0.0
physical write bytes                        589,824        9,484.8         265.0
physical write total IO requests              4,591           73.8           2.1
physical write total bytes               25,374,720      408,045.5      11,399.3
physical write total multi block              4,461           71.7           2.0
physical writes                                  72            1.2           0.0
physical writes direct                            3            0.1           0.0
physical writes direct (lob)                      3            0.1           0.0
physical writes direct temporary                  0            0.0           0.0
physical writes from cache                       69            1.1           0.0
physical writes non checkpoint                   18            0.3           0.0
pinned buffers inspected                          1            0.0           0.0
prefetch warmup blocks aged out                   0            0.0           0.0
prefetched blocks aged out befor                  0            0.0           0.0
process last non-idle time                        0            0.0           0.0
recursive calls                              12,197          196.1           5.5
recursive cpu usage                             747           12.0           0.3
redo blocks written                          11,398          183.3           5.1
redo buffer allocation retries                    0            0.0           0.0
redo entries                                  6,920          111.3           3.1
redo log space requests                           0            0.0           0.0
redo log space wait time                          0            0.0           0.0
redo ordering marks                              96            1.5           0.0
redo size                                10,184,944      163,781.9       4,575.5
redo subscn max counts                          811           13.0           0.4
redo synch time                               2,190           35.2           1.0
redo synch writes                             2,220           35.7           1.0
redo wastage                              1,377,920       22,158.0         619.0
redo write time                               2,192           35.3           1.0
redo writer latching time                         0            0.0           0.0
redo writes                                   2,228           35.8           1.0
rollback changes - undo records                  24            0.4           0.0
rollbacks only - consistent read                  4            0.1           0.0
rows fetched via callback                     1,648           26.5           0.7
session connect time                              0            0.0           0.0
session cursor cache hits                     1,242           20.0           0.6
session logical reads                       104,295        1,677.2          46.9
session pga memory                        2,555,904       41,101.0       1,148.2
session pga memory max                            0            0.0           0.0
session uga memory                          123,488        1,985.8          55.5
session uga memory max                            0            0.0           0.0
shared hash latch upgrades - no                  66            1.1           0.0
sorts (disk)                                      0            0.0           0.0
sorts (memory)                                  148            2.4           0.1
sorts (rows)                                 54,757          880.5          24.6
sql area evicted                                 86            1.4           0.0
sql area purged                                   0            0.0           0.0
summed dirty queue length                         0            0.0           0.0
switch current to new buffer                    596            9.6           0.3
table fetch by rowid                          9,173          147.5           4.1
table fetch continued row                         0            0.0           0.0
table scan blocks gotten                        982           15.8           0.4
table scan rows gotten                      154,079        2,477.7          69.2
table scans (cache partitions)                    0            0.0           0.0
table scans (long tables)                         0            0.0           0.0
table scans (short tables)                       59            1.0           0.0
total number of times SMON poste                  0            0.0           0.0
transaction rollbacks                             1            0.0           0.0
undo change vector size                   3,990,136       64,164.5       1,792.5
user I/O wait time                               49            0.8           0.0
user calls                                   26,517          426.4          11.9
user commits                                  2,226           35.8           1.0
user rollbacks                                    0            0.0           0.0
workarea executions - onepass                     0            0.0           0.0
workarea executions - optimal                   204            3.3           0.1
write clones created in backgrou                  0            0.0           0.0
write clones created in foregrou                  0            0.0           0.0
          -------------------------------------------------------------... and what's even more interesting is the report that I've got using this great Tanel Poder's session snapper script. Take a look at these numbers (excerpt):
SID      USERNAME        TYPE      STATISTIC                  DELTA         HDELTA/SEC       %TIME
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2253426        450.69ms         45.1%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2140618        428.12ms         42.8%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2088327        417.67ms         41.8%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2184408        364.07ms         36.4%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2117470        352.91ms         35.3%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2051280        341.88ms         34.2%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              1595019        265.84ms         26.6%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              612034        122.41ms         12.2%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2162980         432.6ms         43.3%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2071811         345.3ms         34.5%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      log file sync              2004571         334.1ms         33.4%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      db file sequential read    28401          5.68ms           .6%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      db file sequential read    29028          4.84ms           .5%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      db file sequential read    24846          4.14ms           .4%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      db file sequential read    24323          4.05ms           .4%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      db file sequential read    17026          3.41ms           .3%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      db file sequential read    6736          1.35ms           .1%
668      ROVE_EDA        WAIT      db file sequential read    33028           5.5ms           .6%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2236748        447.35ms         44.7%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2150825        430.17ms         43.0%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2139532        427.91ms         42.8%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2119086        423.82ms         42.4%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2134938        355.82ms         35.6%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2083649        347.27ms         34.7%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2034998        339.17ms         33.9%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    1996050        332.68ms         33.3%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    1797057        299.51ms         30.0%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    555403        111.08ms         11.1%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    277875         46.31ms          4.6%
764      (LGWR)          WAIT      log file parallel write    2067591         344.6ms         34.5%Where SID=668 is the session we've been looking for... OK, we've got to get back to monitoring disk array and the corresponding network components.
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    1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
    Don't be put off by the complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
    2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
    There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
    3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
    You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
    In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
    You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
    Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
    4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
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    5. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
    6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
    7. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.
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    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
    8. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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