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Here is my way to trace system calls from the current session process.
This must not be done in production.
An strace.log file will be generated with system calls

connect / as sysdba
column spid new_value pid
select spid from v$process join v$session on v$session.paddr=v$process.addr where sid=sys_context('userenv','sid');
column spid clear
define bg=&:
host strace -fy -p &pid -o strace.log &bg
select * from v$osstat;
disconnect

Originally posted on Twitter, but improved here

https://twitter.com/FranckPachot/status/969898128030695424

It annoyed me slightly that when I googled modify_snapshot_settings just now and all of the examples used huge numbers for the retention with (at best) a brief comment saying what the number meant. Here is a better example with slightly more readable code. Hope a few people down the road cut-and-paste from this article instead and the world gets a few more lines of readable code as a result. :)

On a side note, let me re-iterate the importance of increasing the AWR retention defaults. There are a few opinions about the perfect settings but everyone agrees that the defaults are a “lowest common denominator” suitable for demos on laptops but never for production servers. The values below are what I’m currently using.

It annoyed me slightly that when I googled modify_snapshot_settings just now and all of the examples used huge numbers for the retention with (at best) a brief comment saying what the number meant. Here is a better example with slightly more readable code. Hope a few people down the road cut-and-paste from this article instead and the world gets a few more lines of readable code as a result. :)

On a side note, let me re-iterate the importance of increasing the AWR retention defaults. There are a few opinions about the perfect settings but everyone agrees that the defaults are a “lowest common denominator” suitable for demos on laptops but never for production servers. The values below are what I’m currently using.

It annoyed me slightly that when I googled modify_snapshot_settings just now and all of the examples used huge numbers for the retention with (at best) a brief comment saying what the number meant. Here is a better example with slightly more readable code. Hope a few people down the road cut-and-paste from this article instead and the world gets a few more lines of readable code as a result. :)

On a side note, let me re-iterate the importance of increasing the AWR retention defaults. There are a few opinions about the perfect settings but everyone agrees that the defaults are a “lowest common denominator” suitable for demos on laptops but never for production servers. The values below are what I’m currently using.