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RE: sizing sort_area_size

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:24:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D083F.20030919092443@fatcity.com>


Tanel, you are a genuine treasure and a very nice addition to this list.

--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On
> Behalf Of Tanel Poder
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:55 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: sizing sort_area_size
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Just few additions about 9i's nice features for tuning sorts,
> hash joins & other work area operations:
>
> SQL> select n.name,s.value
> 2 from v$statname n,v$sesstat s
> 3 where n.statistic#=s.statistic#
> 4 and n.name like '%workarea executions%'
> 5 and s.sid in (
> 6 select sid from v$session
> 7 where audsid=sys_context('USERENV','SESSIONID')
> 8 );
>
> NAME
> VALUE
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -- ----------
> workarea executions - optimal
> 136
> workarea executions - multipass
> 0
> workarea executions - onepass
> 1
>
> Optimal means in-memory work area operations (sorts, hash
> joins, bitmap merges, etc.), onepass & multipass mean on disk
> operations. In OLAP and reporting environments, on-disk
> sorting or hasing is often unavoidable, but you should try to
> keep your sorts away from multipass executions, this will
> heavily hit your TEMP TS IO (sort runs can't be merged in
> sort area in one run, several runs needed) also CPU (some
> data comparisions have to be done semi-redundantly). The
> larger your sort_area_size, the smaller is the chance you'll
> need multipass sorting. (v$sql_workarea_histograms table can
> be useful for finding optimal tradeoff between PGA memory
> usage and temp ts IO on system level. On session level,
> v$sql_ workarea and v$sql_workare_active contain very
> interesting statistics).
>
> Tanel.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 5:24 PM
>
>
> > The following query will give you an idea how to tune sort
> area size:
> > 1 select n.name,s.value
> > 2 from v$statname n,v$sesstat s
> > 3 where n.statistic#=s.statistic#
> > 4 and n.name like '%sort%'
> > 5 and s.sid in (select sid from v$session
> > 6* where
> audsid=sys_context('USERENV','SESSIONID'))
> > SQL> /
> >
> > NAME
> VALUE
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------
> -
> > sorts (memory)
> 26
> > sorts (disk)
> 0
> > sorts (rows)
> 87
> >
> > SQL>
> >
> > --
> > Mladen Gogala
> > Oracle DBA
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com
> [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On Behalf
> > > Of rgaffuri_at_cox.net
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:10 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: sizing sort_area_size
> > >
> > >
> > > I have been doing some alter sessions to improve performance of
> > > gigabyte sized 'minus' operations. How do I tell if this
> is helping
> > > other than completion time?
> > >
> > > I believe that if LIOs to PIOs ratio improves with the SAME query
> > > then sort_area_size has helped right?(notice Im not trying to
> > > improve my cache/hit ratio).
> > >
> > > I get this from v$sess_io.
> > >
> > > how do I tell how much temp tablespace my session uses? I
> cant find
> > > a statistic for it? I see that I used up all my PGA since
> PGA size
> > > and PGA max size are equal in v$sesstat.
> > >
> > > anything else I can look at?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
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