side threads while I’m hashing out discussions about some Oracle kernel internals were interesting – it focused on religious threads, ranging from analogies between rootkits and the Bible (strange, but a couple of interesting points) to the quantum properties of cesium and (oddly enough) the effects on passages of Genesis.
Very entertaining, but my main thread’s run into a dead end. All I know is that my cache buffer latches are protecting chains that contain 55 buffer heads (pointers to buffers) on average with a low of 35 and high of 107. The painful thing is that I really know where the source problem SQL is and I’d really like to fix it, but it’s largely in need of a redesign at the schema level, and I’m sick of fighting those fights.
