Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 12 · Space, growth and purging
Monitoring space before it matters
Lesson 125 of 184 · 3 min
What to watch, at what threshold, and WHY A PERCENTAGE ALONE IS A BAD ALERT ON A VERY LARGE FILE SYSTEM. The percentage alert is the default everywhere and it is wrong at both ends of the size range. ON A VERY LARGE FILE SYSTEM, TEN PERCENT FREE IS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SPACE. A four-terabyte volume at ninety percent has four hundred gigabytes left — weeks of headroom, and an alert firing every day that everybody learns to ignore. Which is the real cost: the alert that cried wolf is the one nobody reads on the night it matters. ON A SMALL FILE SYSTEM, TEN PERCENT FREE IS NOTHING. A twenty-gigabyte archive destination at ninety percent has two gigabytes left, which on a busy day is under an hour. By the time the alert fires there is not time to act, which is the failure this lesson exists to…
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