I’ve gotten a lot of reports of folks branching out into SLOB 2.2 large user count testing with the SLOB 2.2 Think Time feature. I’m also getting reports that some of the same folks are not getting the resultant AWR reports one expects from a SLOB test.
If you are not getting your AWR reports there is the old issue I blogged about here (click here). That old issue was related to a Redhat bug. However, if you have addressed that problem, and still are not getting your AWR reports from large user count testing, it might be something as simple as the processes initialization parameter. After all, most folks have been accustomed to generating massive amounts of physical I/O with SLOB at low session counts.
I’ve made a few changes to runit.sh that will help future folks should they fall prey to the simple processes initialization parameter folly. The fixes will go into SLOB 2.2.1.3. The following is a screen shot of these fixes and what one should expect to see in such situation in the future. In the meantime, do take note of SLOB_DEBUG as mentioned in the screenshot:
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