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Re: what is statspack 'CPU Time' event

From: srivenu <srivenu_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 11 Feb 2004 22:56:48 -0800
Message-ID: <1a68177.0402112256.1e1faf92@posting.google.com>


Hi,
Before Oracle 9.2 this section was called "Top 5 Wait Events". It was renamed in Oracle 9.2 to "Top 5 Timed Events" to include the "CPU Time" based on the 'CPU used by this session'. This information will allow you to determine SQL tuning problems. Notice that in Oracle 9.2 references are made "Elapsed Time" rather than to "Wait Time". Also the "CPU Time" is included as part of the Top events section. For further info see $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/spdoc.txt. The cpu time isn't necessarily a bad thing. Prior to 9.2 Oracle didn't track it on the statspack report. It is simply the cpu necessary to complete the tasks. However, really high cpu time could indicate an I/O bottleneck.
Whats the duration for which you had collected this report ? You have set some undocumented parameters, hope you had sufficient reason to do so.
I think Your UNDO_RETENTION of 1 is too small. Your LOG_BUFFER is too big.
When building the database, you could have used a block size of 8KB. Is this a production database ? If it is place your control files on seperate controllers.
regards
Srivenu Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 00:56:48 CST

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