RAID-5 configuration and performance

Hi,
About three years ago, we had a disk drive fail so after the long delayed, repair, I reconfigured the data disk drives into one RAID-5 metadata drive:
$ cat /etc/lvm/md.cf
# metadevice configuration file
# do not hand edit
d45 -r c1t1d0s0 c1t2d0s0 c1t3d0s0 c1t4d0s0 c1t5d0s0 c1t9d0s0 c1t10d0s0 -k -i 256b
(256b -> 256 blocks or 128k bytes)
I went RAID-5 because I wanted the next disk failure to keep the application up until we could schedule a repair activity . . . not fail the application hard and make a crisis d'jour. But at the time, I was working fast and did not realize the '256b' was larger than the cache size of the existing disk drives, the smallest disk cache in the array is just over 105k bytes. Still the array built fine and works in our application. It is 'fast enough' until I try to load a backup . . . then it performs like a dog. It is the Oracle database restore that takes too long.
I suspect my large stripe/interlace size has cut the number of hardware cache buffers in half, from 64 to 32 and this would explain the poor restore performance. I am looking at alternatives now that 1TB USB drives are in the petty cash range but I work on a government contract and money is tight, which leads to these questions:
UFS blocksize is 8192 - is there a known, optimum RAID-5 "interlace" size that is an integer multiple of the UFS block size?
Larger blocksizes means longer data transfer times to and from cache but compared to rotational delays, this is modest. Is there a credible, RAID-5 performance model for random read/writes to a RAID-5 array that uses rotational delay, data transfer speed, and seek delays for an optimum solution?
Are there Solaris tools that might give us insights to disk-layer, SCSI commands being used? Something for SCSI like 'snoop' is for network traffic.
The disk drives appear to have an option to use the cache for read-modify-write instead of physically hitting the same track over and over again. Are there Solaris tools that would allow us to use basic level SCSI commands to reconfigure the disk drives for more intense cache operation during the restore and return to default performance during normal operation?
My current thinking is to take the system down for a series of benchmarks using a semi-log scale "stripe/interlace" of "n" multiples of 8192, the UFS blocksize:
1*8192 -> the smallest tested only if n=2-5 suggests n=2 might be faster than any others
2*8192 -> second test, matches some examples in the documentation
5*8192 -> first test (I have some smaller backups to use that should run within a day)
10*8192 -> third test, determines if there is any reason to go larger
13*8192 -> is the largest that would fit in the smallest disk drive, cache
Based upon these benchmarks, I would test the range between the two fastest to see if there is a multiple of 8192 that shows a performance advantage. However, these tests take time, measured in days. I'm OK with taking the down time but wanted to ask the community if anyone has a better plan or insights to share.
This is not a 'hair on fire' problem as I will schedule the RAID-5 benchmarks for late May. But I thought I'd ask the community first.
Thanks,
Bob Wilson
ps. This forum software seems to be at war with our government e-mail system. I will check back but you can also send a note to [email protected].

Solved, it turned out to be a setting in BIOS that I overlooked, drive is now in use.

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Your question is unclear. As IK mentioned, the only tool you need is a new version of Oracle Forms/Reports. Open your v10 modules in a v11 Builder and select Save. You now have a v11 module. Doing a "Compile All PL/SQL" before saving is a good idea, but not required. The Builders and utilites provided with the version 11 installation are the only supported tools for upgrading your application. If you are trying to do the conversion of many Forms files in a scripted manner, you can use the Forms compiler in a script. Generating new "X" files will also update the source modules (fmb, mmb, pll). See MyOracleSupport Note 955143.1
Also included in the installation in the Forms Migration Assistant. Although it is more useful to people coming from older versions, it can also be used to move from v10 to 11. It allows you to select more than one file at a time. Documentation for this utility can be found in the Forms Upgrade Guide.
Using the Oracle Forms Migration Assistant

Macbook screen cracked, HD and performance issues

I am definitely disappointed with my computer.
I have a Macbook 13.3" 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 4Gb 160Gb HD, Serial#: W8**VM0P5, and within 1,5 year I have faced many issues, which are related here:
September 24th, 2008
O.S. CRASHES
I bought it in late September 2008, in Cologne, Germany, at the reseller "Compustore PC Gmbh", and also asked 4Gb Ram, and a Wireless mighty mouse.
After changing the Ram memory, i went home; and a few days later, the problems came. Sometimes, the system crashed suddenly, showing the grey screen: "You must restart your computer". I thought it was normal, and continued to use, when it became more frequently (Picture: http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986272817173138). It was little strange for a new laptop, and then I took it back to the store to fix it. The seller just took a look, changed some configurations, and gave me back again. I did this twice, and had to get back to the store for the third time, due to new crashes and some lack of performance. Then the seller replaced the Ram memory, with new 4Gb.
After that, the system worked more stable; the problem happened some two or three times after some months, but it was ok.
November 9th, 2009
HD Problems
One year later, in late 2009, I purchased a Mac OS update, the Snow Leopard. I was back to Brazil, where I live till today. During the OS installation, something went wrong and it couldn't be completed. Mac asked me to restart the computer, but then the system didn't start anymore; some files were corrupted. I guess there was not enough space to install the update, so it was not completed; but it should be no reason to the corruption of the OS.
November 10th, 2009
I took my computer to the local Apple technical support, the "Omni Informatica", in Curitiba, PR, Brazil, to format the HD and reinstall the Snow Leopard. As I needed more space, I also changed my original 160Gb HD for a new 250Gb Western Digital HD. The service was finished in Nov 17th.
I noticed also little cracks in the laptop case, but I had no time to insist with the bad local technical support to repair it (I know Apple already acknowledged this problem.) They said, at first, that they would have to ask the Apple USA to send the body, or something like that.
(Pictures:http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986477312032226)
January 12th, 2010.
SCREEN CRACKED
The reinstallation was ok, and the laptop was running well. Suddenly, when I take the Macbook from the case and open it on my desk, something pretty wrong appears: a large crack on the lower right corner of the screen.
It was not dropped, it was not crashed, and I did not "close it with a pen inside".
The screen simply cracked. And as so many similar problems with another users I could easily find on the web, I really expect Apple to admit it as a Manufacture's fault. The local technical support said it is no other thing except I hit the laptop, or dropped it, so it's all my fault. (See Picture 3)
The only thing they can offer me is to repair the screen for R$1200. I am definitely not going to pay for this; a "normal" and good pc laptop costs this price (And a new basic macbook costs today R$2400).
If the problems were just it, it would be not so bad.
(Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986361400585122)
February 11th, 2010
HD FAILURE
After 1 month, on Feb 11th, my new 250Gb HD simply stopped working. Different from the first time, that the HD was just corrupted, this time it has really broken, it died. I had it all backed up, but I have lost the HD.
Back again to the technical assistance, they said to me the problem was the same that cracked my screen: my fault, on letting the laptop fall, or hitting it with some kind of pressure. They couldn't do anything, and even the Western Digital 3-month Warranty would not cover this type of problem ("user's misuse").
May 28th, 2010
DECREASE IN PERFORMANCE
I'm working again with the original 160Gb HD (formatted and reinstalled), and some other external drives to store my files.
It's been quite difficult to deal with all this Data and Screen problems, and now the Macbook's performance is decreasing every day. It's been slower to process operations and to launch the applications. Sometimes, the system does not even sleep anymore when the laptop is closed, or it takes so long time to sleep that it just sleeps when I open it again. Besides, sometimes the mouse pointer disappear, and some bizarre graphics take its place.
Don't forget: It's a 1,5-year-old Macbook, with 2.4GHz, 4Gb RAM and the O.S. is installed for no longer than 4 months. It is supposed to work better, I guess.
I saved a lot of money to buy a good computer, and to get rid of the endless issues I had with PCs. That issues never were so serious with the ones I face now with Macbook.
Even if I pay R$1200 to replace the screen, with the money I don't have, I would still stand these performance issues, which seem to have come with this problematical laptop. I hope to have some solution from Apple, if it want to deliver what it promises and want to keep a customer.
Otherwise, I will have to change to another system platform and another computer manufacturer, to see if I stop throwing money away with these devices. I think that maybe at least, the cost-benefit ratio will be higher.
Did anybody receive contact from Apple support about these screen problems?
Guilherme R. Storck
Apple user since 2008
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Well, your first issue is pretty clearly just some bad RAM, and it sounds like even the replacement RAM was bad. Who knows if the people who put it in had any kind of clue what they were doing. I've seen repair shops where people are smoking in the same room they do repairs.
Second problem sounds typical of a failing HDD. It's a fairly common problem with laptops... Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer... Probably the single most common problem with laptops no matter who makes them. People get this notion in their heads that the "portable" aspect of laptops means you can pick them up and carry them all over while turned on. Which you can... If you don't mind dramatically shortening the life of the HDD. What "portable" REALLY means with laptops, is that they are easy to move if you put them into a powered down state. They should NEVER be moved around when in normal operation. And since you seem to do a bit of traveling, if you're on a plan, and there's turbulence, you should shut the laptop off until it smooths out.
The screen cracking could have something to do with the rather sudden change in climate. Germany isn't exactly the frozen tundra, but it is a pretty different climate from Brazil, and changes in things like humidity could cause problems. The laws of thermodynamics tell us that things expand as they heat up, so if there's already a crack somewhere, it could easily get worse as a result of increased heat.
And since your initial hard drive was already starting to fail, it hasn't magically stopped failing since being removed from the system, so obviously performance is going to get worse.
At this point, it's pretty much impossible to tell where the damage was done, so you're probably just out of luck. The people in Germany could have screwed something up, or the people in Brazil, it could have been environmental damage, and it's possible the defect was always there, it just didn't manifest until recently. There's just no way to tell for sure. So Apple is unlikely to do anything for you.

ERROR: Exception occured while encrypting the configuration and database

I'm facing below issue/error during the OIM 11g R2 configuration (fresh install). Resolutions from other blog with same error (DOMAIN_HOME misconfigured) isn't helping in my case.
Thanks for your help
updateMLSLocale:ORACLE_HOME :/fmw/Oracle_IDM1
updateMLSLocale:LOCALE_PROPERTIES_FILE :/fmw/Oracle_IDM1/inventory/Scripts/ext/jlib/oim/OIMLocales.properties
java.lang.Exception: Exception occured while encrypting the configuration and database
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.util.EncryptConfigurationAndDB.encryptConfigurationAndDatbase(EncryptConfigurationAndDB.java:239)
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.OIMConfigManager.encryptDB(OIMConfigManager.java:1035)
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.OIMConfigManager.configureOIM(OIMConfigManager.java:891)
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.OIMConfigManager.doExecute(OIMConfigManager.java:583)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.client.ConfigAction.execute(ConfigAction.java:371)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.run(TaskPerformer.java:88)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.startConfigAction(TaskPerformer.java:105)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.ActionRequest.perform(ActionRequest.java:15)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.RequestQueue.perform(RequestQueue.java:64)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.standard.StandardConfigActionManager.start(StandardConfigActionManager.java:160)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.boot.ConfigurationExtension.kickstart(ConfigurationExtension.java:81)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.ConfigurationModule.run(ConfigurationModule.java:86)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Exception occured while encrypting the database
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.util.EncryptDataBase.encryptDBContent(EncryptDataBase.java:159)
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.util.EncryptConfigurationAndDB.encryptConfigurationAndDatbase(EncryptConfigurationAndDB.java:230)
... 12 more
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Exception occured in updateMLSLocale method while updating Locale to OIM DB
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.util.EncryptDataBase.updateMLSLocale(EncryptDataBase.java:318)
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.util.EncryptDataBase.encryptDBContent(EncryptDataBase.java:125)
... 13 more
Caused by: java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (DEV_OIM.UK_MLS_LOCALE_MLS_LOCALE_CODE) violated
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:462)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:405)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:931)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:481)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:205)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:548)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:217)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.executeForRows(T4CPreparedStatement.java:1115)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1488)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3769)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeUpdate(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3904)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.executeUpdate(OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.java:1512)
at oracle.as.install.oim.config.util.EncryptDataBase.updateMLSLocale(EncryptDataBase.java:310)
... 14 more

Hi
I faced this issue before ,Reinstall is the option you have .Verify the version of RCU before you start creating schema .Set all Pre DB setting ,hostname and IP Address ,If DB and OIM are in ifferent machines check pinging from both the sides .
Please Drop all OLD schema ,Create a New "Prefix" for fresh installation , don't use old schema .
Let me know .
Thanks,
Ari

Important!! Improve the life and performance of the battery.

Reduce the operating temperature and increase battery life
The battery in your notebook PC is designed to provide the necessary amount of energy for the processor while maintaining HP high safety standards. As a result, the battery may not charge or may stop providing power to the notebook when the battery temperature exceeds the specified, design safety level.
If the battery life appears shorter than normal, the battery stops charging before it is 99%-100% full and the battery appears warmer than usual, the battery has most likely reached its designed "no charge" safety state. The battery will no longer charge until the temperature condition is corrected.
Try one of the following methods to correct the battery temperature:
When charging the battery, do not use applications that require large amounts of system resources such as graphic or memory intensive applications, heavy and extended hard drive usage.
Turn off your notebook and remove the battery to allow it to return to a safe operating temperature.
Make sure the notebook PC is operating on a hard surface. Using the Notebook PC on a bed or sofa may block the vents causing the notebook PC to heat up and shut down.
By taking these steps, the battery will return to its normal operating temperature range and continue to charge and discharge as designed.
Calibrating the battery while PC not in use
Recalibrating the battery requires a cycle of a complete charge and a complete discharge. To recalibrate the battery while using the PC is not is use complete the following steps.
The recalibration may take 1-5 hours depending on the age of the battery and the configuration of the notebook PC you own. The PC should not be used while you perform the following steps. Completing all the following steps will also calibrate the battery so that the power meter readings are accurate.
Shut down the notebook PC
Connect the AC Adapter to the notebook PC and to an electrical socket.
Charge the Notebook PC until the Battery Charge light is Green. This indicates the battery is completely charged.
Press and release the Power Button to start the computer.
Press the F8 key several times when the HP Logo displays.
When the Windows Advanced Startup Menu displays, select the Startup in Safe Mode option.
Remove the AC power adapter from the notebook PC.
Allow the battery to discharge completely until the notebook PC turns off.
The battery is now calibrated and the battery level reading on the power meter is now accurate.
If you are not using the notebook regularly then please unplug the AC adapter and shut down the notebook. By following these practices will improve the life and performance of the battery. Here is a quick list of Do's and Don'ts for the care of your Li-On batteries:
Do's
When you receive a new Notebook or Tablet PC, leave the battery to fully charge overnight.
Condition a new battery by using it until it is fully discharged, and then re-charge it fully. Doing this once a month will help to accurately calibrate your battery.
Always ensure the battery is recharged as soon as possible after it becomes fully discharged. A battery will be permanently damaged if left for an extended length of time in a fully discharged state.
Remember that a Lithium-Ion battery will slowly deteriorate; a new battery will always perform better than one that is 6-months old.
Remember that the battery half-life is rated for a certain total number of charge/discharge cycles (see your User Manual or Quick Start Guide for the rating). For example, a battery that is rated for 3 hours and 500 charge/discharge cycles, will still be considered as within specification, even if it only lasts for 1 hour 45 minutes after 500 charge/discharge cycles.
Heat is the worst enemy of a battery. Allow plenty of air to circulate around the Notebook/Tablet PC, so that the battery is kept as cool as possible when charging and also when in use. If provided, use the integrated 'legs' under the Notebook to raise the notebook and improve air circulation.
Remove the battery if storing for several months (the battery should be at approximately 50% charge or higher).
If you use a NoteBus or if charging your Notebooks or Tablet PCs in a confined space, allow for adequate ventilation in order to keep the batteries as cool as possible.
Don'ts
Do Not - Expose the battery to excessive heat or cold (i.e. outside the range of 10-35 degrees Centigrade ambient).
Do Not - Store the battery in a fully charged state (store batteries with about 50% charge).
Do Not - Allow a nearly flat battery to be unused for more than a month or so. The battery will slowly discharge until it becomes fully discharged and this will permanently damage the battery cells.
Do Not - Charge your Notebook/Tablet PC inside a carry case - the battery may overheat.
Do Not - Charge your Notebook/Tablet PC when stacked on top of each other - the battery may overheat.
Remember: Your battery is slowly degrading all the time, even if it is not used. Keeping your battery as cool as possible will slow down this degradation considerably.
For more information please visit the following links:
How to Improve the Performance of the Battery
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01297640&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
10 Tips to make your Laptop Battery last longer
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/10-tips-to-make-your-laptop-battery.html
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