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Parallel option performing worse on cluster I'm trying out oracles parallel option on a cluster and surprisingly I am getting worse results with the parallel option. I was expecting some improvement with the parallel option but certainly not worse results. I am wondering why this is the case, and if there is anything wrong with the way I am using the parallel option on my cluster.   I am using a degree of 4 when the number of CPU's I have is 8. I have tried adding parallel to the cluster directly ALTER CLUSTER cluster PARALLEL 4 as well as at the statement on both the index /*+ PARALLEL_INDEX(clust_index, 4) */and tables /*+ PARALLEL(4) */,   Here is my trace from the parallel:    Without parallel: What is the difference between Early and Late Binding? What is the difference between early and late binding? Background process of subshell strange behaviour I wonder why some similar bash commands behave the way they do.  I have a bash script foo:  #!/usr/bin/env bash  while true do     echo "reading"     read data     echo $data     echo "stderr msg" &gt;&amp;2     sleep 1 done   It's an infinite loop which reads one line at a time from stdin and outputs that same line. I also have a bash script bar:  #!/usr/bin/env bash  ./foo &amp;   The following commands were run in bash (v. 4.4.19) in a terminal on Ubuntu 18.04 (let's assume the scripts reside in the working directory):   ./foo &amp;   Stops when it tries to read from stdin, in accordance with . Killed when controlling terminal is killed, as expected.  (./foo &amp;)   Appears to be automagically continuously fed with new input from stdin. Shouldn't it too stop when attempting to read from stdin? Whatever it's getting it doesn't show when echoed, thus I'm guessing it's EOF characters.  Continues running even after the controlling terminal is killed. Looking at the output of ps, the controlling terminal changes from pts/x to ?. How did this happen without the use of either disown or nohup? (However, after killing the originally controlling terminal, it yields a "write error: Input/output error" on every write, which I suppose is because its stdout was tied to the now closed terminal. Correct?)  bash -c "./foo &amp;"  Appears to behave exactly like 2). ./bar  Appears to behave exactly like 2) and 3). Adding bash -c "~/foo" (no &amp;) as a startup application  Behaves similarly to 2), 3) and 4), with the differences:   Its controlling terminal is the desktop ttyx. You can't (can you?) kill its controlling terminal.   None of those differences seem odd to me, just the fact that it's continuously fed with new input.   My guess is that 2) - 5) all use a subshell of sorts whose stdin is redirected to something like /dev/null, though I'm very unsure and seek a more exact answer. In what order are the dated ordered by? Certainly not alphanumeric order.  ls -lt sorts by modification time. But I need creation time. I tried this:  find . -type f -size 128 -exec mv {} new_dir/  \;   Which didn't work, and it didn't give me an error. Here is an example of what the file looks like, when using stat -x  $ stat -x ./testfile | grep Size    Size: 128          FileType: Regular File Let $H$ be a subgroup of $G$ with $[G:H]=n$. Let $N$ be the kernel of the left-multiplication action on the cosets of $H$. Show $[G:N]$ divides $n!$ Let $H$ be a subgroup of $G$ with $[G:H]=n$ and $G$ finite.  Let $G$ act on left cosets of $H$ by left multiplication.  Let $N$ be the kernel of the action.  Show that $[G:N]$ divides $n!$.  Ok so I have a theorem that says that if $G$ is simple then it embeds into $S_n$.  So if $G$ is simple than I'm done because $G$ divides $n!$ and thus $N$ divides $n!$ and hence $[G:N]$ divides $n!$.  Now I also know that $N$ is the largest normal subgroup of $G$ contained in $H$.  Thus if $G$ isn't simple then it contains some non-trivial normal subgroup $K$ and thus $K\cap H$ is normal in $H$ and by the 2nd Iso Theorem $H/K\cap H\cong KH/H$...    As you can see I'm not sure where to go from here. I was hoping to prove that $K\cap H$ wasn't trivial and thus that $N$ couldn't be trivial since it must contain $K\cap H$, but I'm not sure I can, and even if I could I'm not sure that would help me in showing that $[G:N]$ is small enough to divide $n!$.  Can anyone give some guidance?  Thanks. Spambots causing server crashes. How do I block them? Why three-phase power? Why not a higher number of phases? Is there a reason, beyond historical reasons, that three phases has become the dominant number of phases?  I am aware of the advantages against one phase and two phase, namely the reduced amount of conductor needed, and that motors can provide torque when stalled (and less pulsation).  Is this solely due to diminishing returns, with only a small increase in smoothness of torque application, at the cost of increased complexity (increased number of wires (albeit of smaller CSA)).  To be clear, the phases are all evenly distributed, that is, five phases separated by 72 degrees. Can I have my iPhone play sound for MacBook? Say I am playing a video on my MacBook Pro, and I don't want to distract others with the sound. The problem is, I don't have a 3.5 mm Headphone or AirPods at my hand, but I have an iPhone 8 Plus and its EarPods with Lightning Connector. Can I play the sound from the video playing on macOS with the iPhone, preferably without connecting the iPhone to the Mac so that I can plug in the EarPods to the iPhone's socket?  This is basically the reverse of Prove that if $X$ and it's closure $\overline X$ are connected and if $X\subset Y \subset \overline X$, show that Y is also connected. Can anyone give me a proof of the statement that if $X$ and its closure $\overline X$ are connected and if $X\subset Y \subset \overline X$, show that Y is also connected?  Thank you. See code:   var file1 = "50.xsl"; var file2 = "30.doc"; getFileExtension(file1); //returns xsl getFileExtension(file2); //returns doc  function getFileExtension(filename) {     /*TODO*/ } How to compare two different files line by line in unix? File1:  123 234 345 456   File2:  123 234 343 758   Expected output: File3:  TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE   so the code should compare two files and print 'TRUE' if it matches otherwise it should print 'FALSE' in the new file. Could anyone please provide the solution for this? Show the number of up-votes and down-votes on the mobile site theme I found there are so much excellent answer to questions about how to product high quality typesetting output. But I wonder how to save ink with LaTeX. What we need to think about to manage cost. page layout or something else? A great Python IDE for Ubuntu Possible Duplicate:          I want to develop Python apps in Ubuntu, and I'm tired of working with gedit one time and another.  So I'm trying to find a great Python IDE (a true IDE, not just a syntax-highlighting editor) on the Ubuntu repositories. Which one do you recommend me? Sufficient condition(s) for $f'$ to be Riemann integrable A childish question (literally) -    My 8 year old asked me this morning: "Dad, what does 'physical' mean?" - and I found myself at loss for an ordinary language answer.   Every answer I could come up with ended up sounding like a definition of empiricism: "physical things are those things that can be observed", "physical means something that can be measured", "whatever can be verified and tested", etc....   Claiming that things that are physical are those things which are material or things that are described by physics seems circular.   Google:     phys·i·cal   ˈfizik(ə)l/   adjective   1.   relating to the body as opposed to the mind.   "a whole range of physical and mental challenges"   synonyms:   bodily, corporeal, corporal, somatic; More   2.   relating to things perceived through the senses as opposed to the mind; tangible or concrete.   "pleasant physical environments"   synonyms:   material, concrete, tangible, palpable, solid, substantial, real, actual, visible   "the physical universe"   And various dictionaries (here Merriam-Webster):      Definition of physical   1   a :  of or relating to natural science   b (1) :  of or relating to physics (2) :  characterized or produced by the forces and operations of physics   2   a :  having material existence :  perceptible especially through the senses and subject to the laws of nature   everything physical is measurable by weight, motion, and resistance — Thomas De Quincey   b :  of or relating to material things     lead to similar definitions.   How can one define "physical" in ordinary language terms? Is there a way of defining "physical" that doesn't presuppose empiricism? What is the rationalist definition of 'physical'?   Is there a definition that doesn't commit to either dualism or empiricism or to any epistemology? VirtualBox 5.0.40 crashes the whole host since update to kernel 4.13.0-26-generic Disable StringBuilder optimisation in javac how to *completely* turn off automatic updates in Windows 10 I have disabled the services &quot;Windows Update&quot; and &quot;Windows Update Medic Service&quot; in using services.mcs. Furthermore, I made changes to the registry, creating a key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU with a DWORD (32-bit) Value &quot;AUOptions&quot; with value set to 2. I still see frequent queries to ctldl.windowsupdate.com sent to my DNS server. Which services need to be disables to completely shut this down?