10.6.8 update running slow as sh*t

Just did the netupdate to my iMac (running OSX 10.6.8) and now my MAC is running slow as sh*t... is anyone else having this issue? I checked the process level and nothing seems to be over consuming system resources... my question is this... has anyone else reported issues with the latest updates?
I'm talking really slow.. dog slow... woof woof. Here's a list of applications that were updated with the latest net update.... one of these is a culprit of poor programming & testing.

Do smc and pram reset.
Boot from your installer dvd (or external bootable drive) and repair/verify you drives (not repair permissions).

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Hi all,
I'm facing a strange problem with Oracle OBDC: I got an application which needs to connect to an Oracle DB via odbc.
Server is a 10.2.0.1; if I connect using ODBC driver installed by Oracle 8 client everything is ok but if I use ODBC driver installed by Oracle 10 client or Oracle XE client SELECT FOR UPDATE statements become really slower.
My application always does the same statement:
SELECT list_of_fields
FROM table
WHERE primary_key =
AND ...
FOR UPDATE;
If I use the Oracle 8 ODBC, this select is almost immediate; but if I use Oracle 10 ODBC it tooks ~4 seconds.
The statement is identical, so the access plan must be the same.
The ODBC configuration is identical too; tnsnames.ora entries are the same.
So, why the 10x clients are slower?
thanks for every answer
andrea
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Which cursor library are you using? The ODBC Driver Manager's cursor library strips off the FOR UPDATE silently (see Appendix F of the ODBC Programmer's Reference). Depending on what version of the "Oracle 8 client" you were using, there may not have been an ODBC driver cursor library, so you may have been forced to use the driver manager's. Potentially, the slowdown is that you're now actually locking the rows now and may be running some contention issues.
It would be worthwhile to trace the sessions and see what the difference in waits is.
Justin

Update runs slow

I have table "table1" with the following two columns:
number1 NUMBER
char1 VARCHAR2(10)
The table has 150,000 rows in it, and has no indexes.
When I run the following SQL:
UPDATE table1 SET char1 = 'X';
it takes slightly more than 2 minutes.
This is being done on a 10gR2 database that was updated from an 8i install at one point, and uses LMTs.
Should it really be taking this long?
Is there something painfully obvious I should be checking?
(I checked V$SQL, and it showed that almost the entire elapsed time was in CPU time. Somehow, that doesn't make sense for a simple I/O statement.)
-- Don

Hi Don,
Thanks for checking those...
Regarding making the table "NOLOGGING" - that would not affect non-bulk DML statements such as UPDATE and DELETE, they always get written to online REDO logs regardless of the LOGGING setting of the table.
Hmm - a couple things left in the bag of tricks.
Some other things to check (I know they may be dumb - but just wanted to mention them anyway):
1) Does your system have multiple CPU's, and if so - is the "PARALLEL" option enabled in your database and table? You could try parallelizing this with Oracle functionality or a "Do-It-Yourself" PL/SQL approach
2) Are other users updating/inserting/deleting this table while you are? (dumb question, but just checking) - if so - increase your FREELISTS or use ASSM on the tablespace...
3) Are other users querying this table while you change it? If so - I believe that Oracle has to do a lot of work placing the contents of the entire table in the UNDO tablespace for them so they get a read-consistent view of the data).
4) How large are your Online Redo log files?
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7) Is the table partitioned on char1, so that updating it would cause row movement to another partition?
8) Are the rows in your table chained (low likelihood)?
9) Has the high-water mark for this table been much higher in the past - perhaps it could benefit from an "ALTER TABLE x MOVE"
Perhaps your system could be checkpointing too frequently due to the number of rows changing and thus being logged...
You can try to see if it is a REDO issue by Running a Create Table As Select (CTAS) statement with the NOLOGGING option, being sure to use the same tablespace as table1 like so:
CREATE TABLE table2
PCTFREE 10
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE <same tablespace>
AS
SELECT number1
, CAST('X' AS VARCHAR2(10)) AS char1
FROM table1;If that creates much faster than your update statement takes on table1, it could indicate a REDO log size/checkpointing issue.
Also - are there similar processes on your system that go much quicker than this and change about the same amount of data?
Thanks...

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