10g RAC Tips for Better Use

This section discusses several best-practice tips and techniques for managing your 10g RAC environment. This section is not intended to serve as a “RAC how-to,” but rather to document several operational essentials we have experienced for ourselves at various customer sites.

Cluster Interconnect

The cluster interconnect is the backbone of RAC performance. Having a poorly performing interconnect would cause many problems in any 9i or 10g RAC environment. Two main RAC components use the cluster interconnect for traffic between the nodes: Global Enqueue Service (GES) and Global Cache Service (GCS). Although the GES is used to synchronize access for various database resources, the GCS serves as the primary component of ...

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