Oracle-L: RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path write'

From: Tim Onions <tim.onions_at_speechmachines.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:04:39 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D5143.20031030070439@fatcity.com>

OK - so I'd not got round to reading a recent previous post on the same issue, seems tim= is in hundredths of seconds for 8i. So I got that bit of the answer. Still pondering on those 'direct path write' waits though.

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Gurus

I've applied many of the things I've learnt from this list over the years and today I tried a 10046 trace for the first time on a reported "slow" transaction. From what I can tell the biggest offender is a wait seemingly associated with rollback (see below) called 'direct path write'. Is this just a traditional wait for a row lock to be released or something more sinister? Any help much appreciated. Also (daft question time) what units are "tim=" in? (ie how many seconds between tim=131853898 and tim=131853270).

This SE 8.1.7.4.12 on Windows 2000.

Thank you

T¬

PARSING IN CURSOR #15 len=60 dep=2 uid=38 oct=7 lid=38 tim=131853270 hv=2073223040 ad='8e9a2080'
DELETE FROM ROUTING_NEXT_JOB RNJ WHERE RNJ.NEXT_JOB_ID = :b1 END OF STMT
PARSE #15:c=0,e=2,p=0,cr=1,cu=0,mis=1,r=0,dep=2,og=0,tim=131853270 WAIT #15: nam='latch free' ela= 0 p1=-1856345836 p2=106 p3=0 EXEC #15:c=0,e=0,p=0,cr=3,cu=14,mis=0,r=2,dep=2,og=4,tim=131853270 XCTEND rlbk=0, rd_only=0

WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59401 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59404 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 1 p1=1026 p2=59407 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59410 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 2 p1=1026 p2=59411 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59414 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59417 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 1 p1=1026 p2=59421 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59425 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59428 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59431 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path write' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=59434 p3=1

...

WAIT #14: nam='direct path read' ela= 79 p1=1026 p2=41389 p3=7
WAIT #14: nam='direct path read' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=41396 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path read' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=41397 p3=7
WAIT #14: nam='direct path read' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=41404 p3=1
WAIT #14: nam='direct path read' ela= 0 p1=1026 p2=41405 p3=3

FETCH #14:c=100,e=628,p=221,cr=5629,cu=12,mis=0,r=1,dep=2,og=4,tim=131853898
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