Oracle Performance Tuning

Question

Hi,
Our organization recently also encounter Oracle DB performance issue, whereby I am searching for information for us to going into diagnostic the problem and finding the root cause of this performance problem.
I had read through this old article where I found a number of points being highlighted was a good start for us, and just about this port, we would like to understand what in details of AIX 5.3 and asynch I/O turned-on had to do with Oracle DB performance, unfortunately the URL given in the article (possible due to the twas back in 2006), is no longer valid (http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/lewis_cbo.html), I tried that but the pages being redirected to (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/index.html).
May I know, would you able to provide me the new URL path for the mentiened AIX 5.3 asynch I/O turned-on related information?
Our environment:
1) OS AIX 5.3
2) Oracle DB 10g
(If I have the AWR Report, would it be better possition for you to help us?)
Thank you in advanced.
Best Regards,
KaiLoon Kok
Edited by: 991132 on Feb 28, 2013 11:19 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
performance tuning is a very large argument and the causes of degradation may be many.
There are several consideration that You have to do like:
- which kind of application is running on the DB
- which kind of optimizer is used
- the striping of the data files across the disks
- the dimension of the DB block
- the waits that DB encounters
- many other things like SORT_AREA_SIZE, HASH_AREA_SIZE, etc.
To begin Yr analysis use the utlbstat.sql and utlestat.sql scripts provided in the $ORACLE_HOM/rdbms/admin directory and check the conditions of the DB.
Increasing the SGA, like You've done, may not be the solution, somtimes it may instead decrease the overall performances.
Also check in wich case the DB is slow, ex. executing some particular procedure, excuting a particular query, ....
Try to identify the better the DB and then try to resubmit Yr problem.
Bye Max
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