August 2018 archive

Aug 17

Oracle Database causing Linux auditd logs to grow fast

Those days I was having some issues on some of my Oracle Linux 6 servers (VMs in OCI), with some Oracle Databases running still in project phase. I could notice /var/log/audit folder size growing abnormally (around ~80MBs day) [root@ocasxxxt00dbre1 audit]# ls -ltrh | tail -n 30 -r--------. 1 root root 6.1M Aug 15 10:24 audit.log.29 …

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Aug 15

Oracle OCI compute instance change shape script

As of today (August 2018), there is still no internal capability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to change the shape of a given compute instance but manually removing and creating the whole machine. This would be indeed a great feature and really believe that Oracle is working to deploy it very soon. Meanwhile, I have some …

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Aug 09

Dissecting 180717 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

Since Oct-2017 I am quarterly writing a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. This is the first one to include change on 18c version. So what oracle internal objects were changed in 180717? VERSION PATCH OWNER TYPE TOTAL ---------- --------------- …

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