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Re: latch free - cache buffers chain problem

From: karandeep <karan_oracle_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 26 Oct 2001 08:38:06 -0700
Message-ID: <de342507.0110260738.2c6c7a28@posting.google.com>


I am new in this group.Happy growing.

"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<1004027348.9280.0.nnrp-13.9e984b29_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
> You seem to have one hot block.
> The solution is to see if you can reduce the
> amount of data in that block so that the 'heat'
> can be spread over more blocks. (e.g. if it is
> a simple table block, would it be sensible to recreate
> it with PCTFREE = 90, to get fewer rows per block)
>
> However, your report seems to show 34.21 seconds
> of time lost in latching - how long has the system
> been running to clock up this time ? If the answer
> is several hours, then you don't really have a problem.
>
>
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> Gulabchand Jaiswal wrote in message ...
> >Hello All,
> >oracle 8 .1.7.1.0 , OS : Solaris 8, app - pepolesoft portal database
> >
> >Extrmely hi latching event problem with cahce buffers chains
> >
> >The top event in statspack report is latch free %total wait time
> >is 88%.
> >Top 5 Wait Events
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wait % Total
> >Event Waits Time (cs) Wt Time
> >-------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------ ----
> ---
> >latch free 1,880 3,421 88.38
> >
> >
> >Latch activity for DB section shows following as troublesome :
> >
> >cache buffers chains 9,196,960 13.0 0.0 75 0.0
> >
> >drilled through v$latch, v$latch_children and x$bh as per oracle technote
> 61988.1
> >Was able to find that TCH for blk 5725 in file#12 is abnornally high i.e.
> 3390.
> >But that doc stops there. Does not tell how to fix it.
> >Any help will be apprciated.
> >
> >
> >Thx
Received on Fri Oct 26 2001 - 10:38:06 CDT

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