File Dependency Question..

I was wondering when generating a new file dependency can I do embedded unix commands?
For example, I wanted to check the exisitance of a file but with a date structure:
/home/test/`date +%Y-\%m-\%d`/testfolder/testfile.csv
Essentially, that gets todays date in a specific format for a directory name. Its the same as doing an "ls" on that path and seeing if it exists, except the shell will interpret the `date +%Y-\%m-\%d` portion and return the date in that format.
Is this possible within the context of a file dependency?
Thanks

You can use the Tidal System Date variable to accomplish this. Click the Variables button, System Variables, System Date, Date Format. This will insert the system date when Tidal starts the new scheduled day. This is probably at midnight, but if you have an offset schedule this could be at another time. The important thing to remember is the date is when the current day's schedule goes live, not the date when the job's dependencies are met.
You can also use the System Variable, Production Date, Date Format if you use an offset schedule. This will use the Production Date associated with the offset calendar. For example, if you have offset your schedule to start at 8am and the current date at 8am is 10/28, then the production date is 10/28 from 8am today until 7:59:59am tomorrow.
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In our project we have a job group which will move a set of file from one directory to another directory. The first job in that group will be run only when a file with an extension "ind" is present in the source directory, i.e the dependency is set to a file with extension *.ind(Please see attached screeshot for reference).
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This sounds like the runtime user of the job is a different account than used by the agent.
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When the job runs it uses the runtime user. If the runtime user is different account than the agent account you can encounter the problem you describe.
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Press the power button down to force a emergency use only hardware shutdown.
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I have the scenario as follows where i need to split the file depends upon number of occurences of element e1 .
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<root1 attribute>
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<e1>
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<root1 attribute>
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<field2> ....</field2>
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I do "maintain" one package in AUR (jnc) and have a dependency question about this package:
I built an extra package for x86_64 because of some dependency issues on my machine, but after uploading I recognised, that the issues comes with the juniper binary and not with my package.
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Because the file object, to the best of my knowledge,
does not hold the contents, it just contains
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Some clarification is needed if possible...
When you commit a transaction:
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blocks to disk
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header (task of checkpoint when a log switch occurs)
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Also, when is the redo thread scn written?
Matt

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This is my understanding of the stuff. Feel free to correct me.
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A service test-app is enabled, and it's file dependency is absent.
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State: offline since Wed Jun 21 22:59:52 2006
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While that bug exists and explains why "restart" didn't behave the same as "disable/enable" the other problem isn't strictly a bug, but a limitation.
SMF does not continuously re-evaluate file dependencies to see if it should online/offine services. So touching a file is never supposed to bring a service online.
File dependencies are only evaluated during service transitions. Not continuously like service dependencies are. It's been discussed about trying to do that, but constantly reading a filesystem tends to be very expensive. The documentation might need to be more explic
it about this.
Darren

Log file sync question

Metalink note 34592.1 has been mentioned several times in this forum as well as elsewhere, notably here
http://christianbilien.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/the-%E2%80%9Clog-file-sync%E2%80%9D-wait-event-is-not-always-spent-waiting-for-an-io/
The question I have relates to the stated breakdown of 'log file sync' wait event:
1. Wakeup LGWR if idle
2. LGWR gathers the redo to be written and issue the I/O
3. Time for the log write I/O to complete
4. LGWR I/O post processing
5. LGWR posting the foreground/user session that the write has completed
6. Foreground/user session wakeup
Since the note says that the system 'read write' statistic includes steps 2 and 3, the suggestion is that the difference between it and 'log file sync' is due to CPU related work on steps 1, 4, 5 and 6 (or on waiting on the CPU run queue).
Christian's article, quoted above, theorises about 'CPU storms' and the Metalink note also suggests that steps 5 and 6 could be costly.
However, my understanding of how LGWR works is that if it is already in the process of writing out one set of blocks (let us say associated with a commit of transaction 'X' amongst others) at the time a another transaction (call it transaction 'Y') commits, then LGWR will not commence the write of the commit for transaction 'Y' until the I/Os associated with the commit of transaction 'X' complete.
So, if I have an average 'redo write' time of, say, 12ms and a 'log file sync' time of, say 34ms (yes, of course these are real numbers :-)) then I would have thought that this 22ms delay was due at least partly to LGWR 'falling behind' in it's work.
Nonetheless, it seems to me that this extra delay could only be a maximum of 12ms so this still leaves 10ms (34 - 12 -12) that can only be accounted for by CPU usage.
Clearly, my analsys contains a lot of conjecture, hence this note.
Can anybody point me in the direction of some facts?

Tony Hasler wrote:
Metalink note 34592.1 has been mentioned several times in this forum as well as elsewhere, notably here
http://christianbilien.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/the-%E2%80%9Clog-file-sync%E2%80%9D-wait-event-is-not-always-spent-waiting-for-an-io/
The question I have relates to the stated breakdown of 'log file sync' wait event:
1. Wakeup LGWR if idle
2. LGWR gathers the redo to be written and issue the I/O
3. Time for the log write I/O to complete
4. LGWR I/O post processing
5. LGWR posting the foreground/user session that the write has completed
6. Foreground/user session wakeup
Since the note says that the system 'read write' statistic includes steps 2 and 3, the suggestion is that the difference between it and 'log file sync' is due to CPU related work on steps 1, 4, 5 and 6 (or on waiting on the CPU run queue).
Christian's article, quoted above, theorises about 'CPU storms' and the Metalink note also suggests that steps 5 and 6 could be costly.
However, my understanding of how LGWR works is that if it is already in the process of writing out one set of blocks (let us say associated with a commit of transaction 'X' amongst others) at the time a another transaction (call it transaction 'Y') commits, then LGWR will not commence the write of the commit for transaction 'Y' until the I/Os associated with the commit of transaction 'X' complete.
So, if I have an average 'redo write' time of, say, 12ms and a 'log file sync' time of, say 34ms (yes, of course these are real numbers :-)) then I would have thought that this 22ms delay was due at least partly to LGWR 'falling behind' in it's work.
Nonetheless, it seems to me that this extra delay could only be a maximum of 12ms so this still leaves 10ms (34 - 12 -12) that can only be accounted for by CPU usage.
Clearly, my analsys contains a lot of conjecture, hence this note.
Can anybody point me in the direction of some facts?It depends on what you mean by facts - presumably only the people who wrote the code know what really happens, the rest of us have to guess.
You're right about point 1 in the MOS note: it should include "or wait for current lgwr write and posts to complete".
This means, of course, that your session could see its "log file sync" taking twice the "redo write time" because it posted lgwr just after lgwr has started to write - so you have to wait two write and post cycles. Generally the statistical effects will reduce this extreme case.
You've been pointed to the two best bits of advice on the internet: As Kevin points out, if you have lgwr posting a lot of processes in one go it may stall as they wake up, so the batch of waiting processes has to wait extra time; and as Riyaj points out - there's always dtrace (et al.) if you want to see what's really happening. (Tanel has some similar notes, I think, on LFS).
If you're stuck with Oracle diagnostics only then:
redo size / redo synch writes for sessions will tell you the typical "commit size"
redo size + redo wastage / redo writes for lgwr will tell you the typical redo write size
If you have a significant number of small processes "commit sizes" per write (more than CPU count, say) then you may be looking at Kevin's storm.
Watch out for a small number of sessions with large commit sizes running in parallel with a large number of sessions with small commit sizes - this could make all the "small" processes run at the speed of the "large" processes.
It's always worth looking at the event histogram for the critical wait events to see if their patterns offer any insights.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis

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I think we may have a slight miscommunication. This is the way that I interpreted your original post.
Lets say you shot the Smith/Jones wedding this past weekend. You start a new project and have a Service Sequence and a Reception Sequence. You finish editing both the service and reception and just a standard full length video. Now you want to create a montage with clips from both the service and reception. In this montage you will have different effects like Black and white, Slo Mo, blurs, etc. So what you do is export the service and reception and then import those two files (or one long one) and then cut that apart and add your music and effects to make your montage. Is that correct?
The way that I do it works the exact same way except that you skip the export part.
When I edit a wedding I generally have 4 sequences when I am finished. I have a Pre Wedding montage, service, reception, and ending highlights. The Pre Wedding montage is just made up of shots from before the service (bride and bridesmaids getting ready, shots of the venu, groom and groomsmen and so on). Then I have a full edit of the service and a full edit of the reception. After I am finished with those 3 sequences I start working on the ending highlight collage. I make a new sequence for the collage then I go to my bin and drag the "Service Sequence" up into the preview monitor (I know in my previous post I said double click. That does not work, because that just opens it up as a sequence. Sorry about that). In the preview monitor I scrub through the footage until I find a section that I want in the montage. Then I set in and out points around that clip and drop it into my Montage timline, and what ever effects to it that I want, then move on to the next clip and do the same thing. To me it seems that we have the same process except that you have to wait for the export (which is always going to give you a quality loss, how much of a loss depends on format and settings).
Please let me know if I have misread your process.
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