Pythian Goodies: Oracle Disk I/O Basics
Two weeks ago, I released a video about Flash Recovery Area as part of the Pythian Goodies project. Here is the next video in the sequence.
Oracle I/O Basics
This video covers:
- Disk I/O Concepts
- Async disk I/O concepts - when does Oracle use it
- Monitoring via vmstat - explained
- Monitoring via iostat - explaining the meaning of the
%util(disk busy time) column, queue depth, service time, wait time - Concepts of larger queue, faster disk I/O, slower response time, more through-put.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v237408rJb8XQWX
As usual, the Goodies are intended to be debates, so please post any questions of follow-ups with the relevant time-index from the video.
N.B.: YouTube decided to limit director’s accounts to 10 minutes and decided to have a new account type called the “10+ minutes” account. Unfortunately, the form to apply for such accounts is disabled until further notice. We had to find an alternative and we picked veoh. It comes in handy as it offers an iPod version for direct download.
February 15th, 2007 at 7:28 am
good stuff here, folks.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Not impressed with veoh. It looks like I need to have Windows/Mac, note NO LINUX, to download and view file and I have to use some Veoh player. I appreciate Pythian taking the time to produce these videos for the Oracle community but I would request that the distribution method also support *nix users.
I’ll crawl back to my Web 1.0 world.
Ciao
Annoyed
February 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Hmm - that’s strange. Did you try downloading the ipod-compatible one, if you have an ipod? It’s in an open format that video players on linux should be able to easily view.
Also - I am confident that the flash player works in linux - is this only an issue when trying to download it to view it offline?
Thanks
Paul
February 21st, 2007 at 11:44 am
I can confirm that the Flash player works with Linux, Ubuntu 6.10 to be precise. Shockwave Flash player = 7.0 r63.