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OOW14 Session: The Art and Craft of Tracing

Submitted by arupnanda on Thu, 2014-10-02 21:24

A big thanks to all those who braved attending my session on the final day of Oracle Open World 2014. I hope you enjoyed it and found it valuable.

You can download the slide deck as well as the scripts I mentioned here.

As always, I would love to hear from you.

PeopleTools 8.52 Application Engine sets MODULE and ACTION

Submitted by davidkurtz on Fri, 2012-11-23 16:50

PeopleTools 8.52 Application Engine sets MODULE and ACTION

Submitted by davidkurtz on Fri, 2012-11-23 16:50
I have written and spoken often about the huge importance of instrumentation in an application. PeopleSoft introduced internal instrumentation to PeopleTools 8.44 for its own Performance Monitor that works on any platform. Since PeopleTools 7.53, when running on an Oracle database, PeopleTools also calls the Oracle supplied package dbms_application_info package to set the module and action for the session. The values set were not particularly useful, so I wrote a PL/SQL package (psftapi) and trigger to set the module and action attributes when a process started.

Enabling Oracle Extended SQL Trace by Module and Action

Submitted by davidkurtz on Thu, 2012-09-20 17:42
I have written previously about the value of assigning meaningful values to the module and action attributes on a database session (see Using Oracle Enterprise Manager (Grid Control) with PeopleSoft). Oracle added instrumentation to PeopleTools 8.50 (see PeopleTools 8.50 uses DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO to Identify Database Sessions) that sets module and action for on-line and batch sessions.  However, I still use my own trigger to set these attributes for processes initiated by the Process Scheduler.

Enabling Oracle Extended SQL Trace by Module and Action

Submitted by davidkurtz on Thu, 2012-09-20 17:42
I have written previously about the value of assigning meaningful values to the module and action attributes on a database session (see Using Oracle Enterprise Manager (Grid Control) with PeopleSoft). Oracle added instrumentation to PeopleTools 8.50 (see PeopleTools 8.50 uses DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO to Identify Database Sessions) that sets module and action for on-line and batch sessions.  However, I still use my own trigger to set these attributes for processes initiated by the Process Scheduler.

Measurement Error Trap In Trace File (event 10046)

Submitted by joc on Sat, 2009-12-12 22:13
Some time ago I had an interesting case which I can use to clearly describe how one can be caught in measurement error trap.

But let us start at the beginning with this response time analysis:

Response Time Component Time % Elap AvgEla
---------------------------------------- ----------- ------- ---------
CPU service 3934.97s 48.39% 0.000716
un-accounted for time 1363.01s 16.76%
db file sequential read 1122.00s 13.80% 0.032253
gc buffer busy 451.73s 5.56% 0.011746
log buffer space 451.64s 5.55% 0.123974
buffer busy waits 176.79s 2.17% 0.029579