April 2012

Little things I didn’t know: difference between _enable_NUMA_support and numactl

In preparation for a research project and potential UKOUG conference papers I am researching the effect…
Limit nmon to certain disks

I am often working on systems with large number of LUNs, going into the hundreds. Trying…
RMAN restore spfile from autobackup and compatible weirdness

Prompted by a recent interview I wanted to perform a little test with RMAN, and incrementally…
WARNING: FAILED to load library: /opt/oracle/extapi/64/asm/orcl/1/libasm.so

This post is long overdue, and it’s as much a reminder to myself as it is…
Exadata experience, what does that actually mean?

As an active member of the Oracle user community I really enjoy talking to delegates at…
RMAN duplicate and read-only tablespaces

This one is to be filed under the “little things I didn’t really know until now”…