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Re: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path write' wait

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:04:46 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D5144.20031030070446@fatcity.com>


So, when you look for the segment_type,segment_name,owner in dba_extents, what do you see for file_id=1026 and block_id's as listed in p2?

On 10/30/2003 09:44:25 AM, Tim Onions wrote:
> 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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