I'm looking at alerts in the Alerts Feed and their accompanying tooltips or pop-ups or whatever those boxes are called that you see when you hover over an alert.

One alert was like "tblRd Table reads/sec x > y". The pop-up has some header info, followed by a table of users by logical reads and tables of table and index CRUD. Some of the table CRUD line items end with "***", to the right of the "Churn" column.

In my browser (Firefox), these pop-up boxes are very finicky. It is sometimes difficult to make them appear by hovering over the alert, and when they do they sometimes disappear after some period that I can't discern.

Questions:

• What is the meaning of the three asterisks beside a table record?
• Are there any ProTop UI configuration settings that govern the behaviour of these pop-up boxes?

I was looking through ProTop and was somewhat surprised to find that it doesn't seem to report inactive indexes anywhere. Just wondering whether that has been considered as a feature, e.g. as a counter (# of inactive indexes) in the configuration panel.

Given the performance problems that an inactive index could cause, it would be useful to alert if this number was non-zero (perhaps excluding audit indexes).

@tom said in OE 12 support:

Lastly, I also (sneakily) patched the pt3.14 release a week or so ago. If your "as of" date on that is in May rather than March then you should also have the oe12 changes (but not the "4" hotkey).

That explains it, I got the error from the original March version.

3.14 (without the .1592653589793 patch...)

@tom said in Configure the User Information Viewer:

I'm thinking that the statement cache should automatically appear or disappear based on whether or not it is enabled for a particular client.

That's reasonable. Though I'd still like to be able to turn the individual browses on or off.

It would also be nice to have the act of turning off User Information Viewer revert to a view that is more useful, as opposed to just removing the header section. E.g. if the act of going into it cached the current list of displays (e.g. d, t, i, u), so they could be restored when u is pressed again. Food for thought.

┌────────────────────────────── Error ──────────────────────────────┐
│            Unknown or ambiguous table _startup. (725)             │
│ ** /opt/protop/lib/vstlib.p Could not understand line 880. (196)  │
│                                                                   │
│ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│                            <OK> <Help>                            │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Any update on OE 12.x support for PT?

I used to be able to turn off the "Session 4GL Call Stack" and "User's Other Sessions" browses with the "3" and "4" hotkeys respectively.

Did those assignments go away or get reassigned? I'm using 3.14.

@tom said in Happy pi day - pt3.14 has been released!:

Go to your usual website and grab a download!

Or upgrade from the command line: $PROTOP/bin/pt3upd.sh pt3.14

@tom said in Happy pi day - pt3.14 has been released!:

@rob-fitzpatrick I like that you said “if”

Well, there's a first time for everything...

If you find a bug, will there be a .159 patch?