Hot index block split on a very busy table--what is the impact

hi, all,

    We have a few database with very high concurrent access busy tables, that some indexes of the busy tables could be accessed 1.5K-4K times per second. (PK lookup)

    I am wondering , when such index got block split (at the root, or branch level), what will be the impact on the system.

    Index block split is said to be an expensive operation, during the block split on branch/root block, what the other sessions that is doing select based on this index, be waiting on? There is a wait event named: Index Block Split with p1,p2,p3 pointing to block address, level.

   Document "Description of oracle 7 Wait event and enqueue" says it will yield CPU.

   We have a few production incident when load suddenly jump from 10, to several hundred, and during that time nothing can be done. From our monitoring tools, it is mainly "latch free" contention inside oracle, and it is cache buffer chains. The load spike matches the oracle description of block split, but the wait event does not match. And because the load spike time is very short, we can't capture the actual wait event/p1,p2,p3 during the exact time of the load spike time.
  Anyone have similar problem/insight into this issue?   Is there some v$ view to track, (v$segstat does not) have log about which index go through how many time block split? Or any other effecitve way?

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Regards
Zhu Chao
www.cnoug.org

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Wed Aug 30 2006 - 08:53:24 CDT