Introduction
Working for several years across several industries on various RAC projects, there have been several occasions to troubleshoot performance issues in a production environment. Applications and databases that where moved from a single-instance Oracle environment to a two or more node RAC environment to hide a performance problem. An example that comes to mind, which I have encountered in the field on several occasions, is when the database was moved to a RAC environment because the single instance was running at 100% CPU and it was hoped that by moving to a RAC configuration, the 100% CPU overload would be distributed between the various instances in the cluster. This really does not happen this way; RAC cannot do magic to fix poorly ...
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