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Profiling can be turned on for either MINE, APPLY or both, FETCHER or all of the processes

There are 2 ways to turn in profiling:

  1. Turning on profiling without having to stop and start MINE or , FETCHER, APPLY, OR
  2. Editing the DDC file and then stopping and starting the MINE/APPLY/FETCHER processes

MINE (without having to stop the MINE process)

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  1. Shutdown the APPLY process
  2. Edit the *-APPLY.ddc DDC file.
  3. Add the following line to the DDC file (give full path name):  

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    memory_set PROFILER /home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E
  4. Restart the APPLY process
  5. Wait for a few PLOG switches.
  6. Zip and upload the resulting file to Dbvisit Support. The profiler files will be in the location specified by the full path given (/home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E)
  7. Turn off the profiling with by removing the profiler command OR adding a comment in front of the line in the DDC file:

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    # memory_set PROFILER /home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E
  8. Stop and restart the APPLY process

 

FETCHER (without having to stop the FETCHER process)

  1. Start the command console and type

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    engine fetcher send memory_set PROFILER /home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E
  2. Wait for a few log switches.
  3. Zip and upload the resulting files to Dbvisit Support. The profiler files will be in the location specified by the full path given (/home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E)
  4. Turn off the profiling:

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    engine fetcher send memory_set PROFILER OFF

FETCHER (shutting down FETCHER)

  1. Shutdown the FETCHER process
  2. Edit the *-FETCHER.ddc DDC file.
  3. Add the following line to the DDC file (give full path name):  

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    memory_set PROFILER /home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E
  4. Restart the FETCHER process
  5. Wait for a few PLOG switches.
  6. Zip and upload the resulting files to Dbvisit Support. The profiler files will be in the location specified by the full path given (/home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E)
  7. Turn off the profiling with by removing the profiler command OR adding a comment in front of the line in the DDC file:

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    # memory_set PROFILER /home/oracle/..../prof_%S.%E
  8. Stop and restart the FETCHER process

 

Note

In some cases, sub profiling can also be enabled to obtain finer grained profiling information. Please check with Dbvisit support before enabling this.

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memory_set _SUBPROFILER=YES

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