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2008.02.13: OLT 2.1.0-2

 

OLT version 2.1.0-2 is released. Change Log for 2.1.0-2 is posted below.

 

Details:

 

1. Added support for using AMM feature with 11g in OLT
This enables automatic tuning of PGA and SGA with use of two new parameters named MEMORY_MAX_TARGET and MEMORY_TARGET. This also requires the configuration of /dev/shm on your system.Hugepages tests do not use this features.
2. Copyright notices updated for 2008
3. Changelog for all tools:

 

oltdbt2/dbt2: Fixes for running dbt2 kit standalone Added collection of statspack in dbt2 kit Password less ssh setup check for oracle user Support for using AMM feature in oltdbt2 and dbt2 kit for 11g Added support for NO_SLEEP for oltdbt2 and dbt2 kit Fixes for collecting dbt2 kit os statitics init.ora changes to remove _ksmg_granule_size Added support in oltdbt2 for ignoring acceptable ORA errors

 

attach: For hugetlb verify that the hugepages are allocated during each startup and verify that the hugepages are released after shutdown.

 

oltdbt3/dbt3: Support for using AMM feature in oltdbt3 and dbt3 kit for 11g Added support in oltdbt3 for ignoring acceptable ORA errors

 

customtests: Added bug-hugepage testcase for verifying allocation of more than 4GB hugepages during oracle instance startup and release of hugepages during shutdown of oracle instance. Added bug-io4 testcase - a regression test for fix for panic in __aio_put_req() Added bug-nfsmount testcase - a regression test for failure to mount seen with mount points with different mount option and created from same volume within a sub directory

 

4. ChangeLog for olt framework

 

Framework: Added new tests ( bug-io4, bug-hugetlb, bug-nfsmount ) into validate.cmd Created 3 types of cmd files - for Validated configurations, general os testing, and Oracle vm based tests. Sizing changes for 11g for single instance test workloads. Removed hardcoded USERS, SGA settings in testcase env files. Sizing for test workload is now made dynamic based on the host memory configuration.