RE: reads by KTSJ

From: Noveljic Nenad <nenad.noveljic_at_vontobel.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 09:05:56 +0000
Message-ID: <25726_1589360776_5EBBB888_25726_15767_1_1bc0386b13c946a99b8a3b0c49db7125_at_vontobel.com>



Thank you, Jonathan.

I randomly picked the following block:

SQL> _at_ashtop program2,event2,p1,p1text,p2,p2text,p3,p3text,sql_id,top_level_sql_opcode "program2 like '(W%' and event is not null" "to_date('2020-05-12 13:37:15')" "to_date('2020-05-12 14:37:15')"

    Total                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Distinct
  Seconds     AAS %This   PROGRAM2                                 EVENT2                                             P1 P1TEXT                                 P2 P2TEXT                                 P3 P3TEXT                         SQL_ID        TOP_LEVEL_SQL_OPCODE FIRST_S       Execs Seen
--------- ------- ------- ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ ---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ------------------------------ ------------- -------------------- ------------- ----------
        1      .0    0% | (WnnA)                                   db file sequential read                            12 file#                              419748 block#                                  1 blocks                                                          0 2020-05:56:54          1

It belongs to a table segment:

select owner,segment_name,partition_name,segment_type from dba_extents where file_id=12 and 419748 between block_id and block_id+blocks-1 ;

OWNER                          SEGMENT_NAME                   PARTITION_NAME                 SEGMENT_TYPE
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------
XXXXXXXX                  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX                                                TABLE


Below is the the symbolic dump.

Start dump data blocks tsn: 16 file#:12 minblk 419748 maxblk 419748 Block dump from cache:
Dump of buffer cache at level 3 for pdb=0 tsn=16 rdba=50751396 Block dump from disk:
buffer tsn: 16 rdba: 0x030667a4 (12/419748) scn: 0x1211b61c3d seq: 0x01 flg: 0x04 tail: 0x1c3d0601 frmt: 0x02 chkval: 0x51a5 type: 0x06=trans data Hex dump of block: st=0, typ_found=1

The block seems empty.

Best regards,

Nenad

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Lewis Sent: Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2020 09:36
To: ORACLE-L (oracle-l_at_freelists.org) <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Re: reads by KTSJ

As Mladen said, KTS is all about space management, and one of the key functions of the Wnnn processes is to anticipate space requirements and pre-allocate, which applies particularly to extending tablespaces in advance of demand and extending segments (particularly securefile segments, I think) in advance.

You said the buffer busy waits were in the user schema - which presumably means they were for blocks that are currently part of some user segments. If this is correct, what class of block would they be - I'd expect them to be bitmap space management blocks. I can imagine Oracle using several Wnnn processes to add a large amount of space to a securefile segment and having to update the L3 and L2 bitmap blocks for that segment - and having to queue to update the bitmaps.

Regards
Jonathan Lewis

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:05 PM Noveljic Nenad <nenad.noveljic_at_vontobel.com<mailto:nenad.noveljic_at_vontobel.com>> wrote: I started occasionally seeing KTSJ slaves heavily waiting on “free buffer waits” and “db file sequential read” after upgrading from 18.7.0.0.190716 to 19.7.0.0.200414:

SQL> _at_ash_wait_chains2 "program2||' '||event2||' '||module||' '||action" "program2 like '(W%'" "to_date('2020-05-12 13:37:15')" "to_date('2020-05-12 14:37:15')"

%This     SECONDS     AAS WAIT_CHAIN                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   FIRST_SEEN          LAST_SEEN
------ ---------- ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- -------------------
  22%         310      .1 -> (Wnnn)  free buffer waits  KTSJ KTSJ Slave -> (DBWnnn)  db file parallel write                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2020-05-12 13:46:55 2020-05-12 13:48:40
  10%         144      .0 -> (Wnnn)  db file sequential read  KTSJ KTSJ Slave                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2020-05-12 13:46:54 2020-05-12 13:48:52
  10%         144      .0 -> (WnnA)  free buffer waits  KTSJ KTSJ Slave -> (DBWnnn)  db file parallel write                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2020-05-12 13:46:55 2020-05-12 13:57:13
   7%         104      .0 -> (WnnA)  db file sequential read  KTSJ KTSJ Slave                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2020-05-12 13:46:54 2020-05-12 13:57:11

Some of the affected processes have the following entries in the trace file:

  • SESSION ID:(1202.8580) 2020-05-12T13:46:54.295884+02:00
  • CLIENT ID:() 2020-05-12T13:46:54.295916+02:00
  • SERVICE NAME:(SYS$BACKGROUND) 2020-05-12T13:46:54.295947+02:00
  • MODULE NAME:(KTSJ) 2020-05-12T13:46:54.295978+02:00
  • ACTION NAME:(KTSJ Slave) 2020-05-12T13:46:54.296009+02:00
  • CLIENT DRIVER:() 2020-05-12T13:46:54.296039+02:00
[ktspsc_segmon] submitted segfix task
[ktspsc_segmon] submitted segfix task
[ktspsc_segmon] submitted segfix task


The tablespaces are autoextensible, but I don’t know if they were extended during this time period. The IO performance is OK.

I examined one of the read bloccks – it belongs to a user schema, nothing special about it:

How to figure out what might have caused this KTSJ slave activity?

Best regards,

Nenad

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