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Contention [message #360630]

Fri, 21 November 2008 12:58

dbcop
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Hi gurus,

I have a situation where I find a particular sql statement taking 5 hrs to execute in a production server . The event I find is due to DB File Sequential Read.

The sql statement runs fine over weekends but slows done abnormally on weekdays.

I feel there is an IO contention on that datafile which contains the objects referred by the sql statement but need to make sure of that . Buffer cache hit ratio is 98%.

Can anybody pls guide me to confirm it.

Thanks

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Re: Contention [message #360674 is a reply to message #360630]

Sat, 22 November 2008 01:11

rleishman
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DB File Sequential Read usually means index scans.

Large batch jobs often perform better with Full Table Scans than index scans. You may find that you are using SQL inside a cursor loop - that would give big DB File Sequential Reads.

See these aritcles:
http://www.orafaq.com/node/1981
http://www.orafaq.com/node/1399

Find the poor performing SQLs and tune them individually.

Ross Leishman

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Re: Contention [message #360686 is a reply to message #360674]

Sat, 22 November 2008 03:42

dbcop
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Hi

Thanks for the reply since the batch job runs very fast on weekends so I feel sql tuning is not required it only slows when there is heavy load on the prod db.

I need to confirm if there is any contention like IO contention pls guide me to find out if there is any contention.

Thanks

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Re: Contention [message #360687 is a reply to message #360686]

Sat, 22 November 2008 04:03

Michel Cadot
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Regards
Michel

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Re: Contention [message #360706 is a reply to message #360687]

Sat, 22 November 2008 20:04

rleishman
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So from what you're telling us, it does EXACTLY the same thing on weekends, processing EXACTLY the same number of rows, right?

Ross Leishman

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Re: Contention [message #360725 is a reply to message #360630]

Sun, 23 November 2008 09:30

dbcop
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yes exactly it is processing the same number of rows on weekends as well as on weekdays.

There is no difference in the execution plan as well.

Only there is a huge time difference . On weekdays the query execution takes 5 hrs (with an event as DB File sequential Read)

whereas on weekends it completes within 30 mins.

Pls note this is on a prodcution server and load on it on weekdays is huge compared to the load over weekends.

Thanks

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Re: Contention [message #360962 is a reply to message #360630]

Mon, 24 November 2008 08:14

dbcop
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Registered: September 2006
Location: india

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I am trying to run catio.sql to list IO per object . I looked into into metalink as well the known problems with the script is already been rectified .

But whenever I run the following

exec sample_io(5,60);

I get the following error

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: raw variable length too long
ORA-06512: at "SYS.SAMPLE_IO", line 23
ORA-06512: at line 1

Can anybody pls help me with this.

I am attaching the script as an attachment .The DB version I am running is

Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production

Thanks

Attachment: catio.sql
(Size: 8.26KB, Downloaded 1386 times)

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Re: Contention [message #360969 is a reply to message #360630]

Mon, 24 November 2008 08:33

dbcop
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Pls ignore my previous update as I changed the following

tail_of_lru raw(4);
this_tail_of_lru raw(4);
into
tail_of_lru raw(8);
this_tail_of_lru raw(8);

and it ran successfully.

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Re: Contention [message #361277 is a reply to message #360630]

Tue, 25 November 2008 11:43

dbcop
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Registered: September 2006
Location: india

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Hi Gurus

Although I could run the procedure sample_io correctly .

But select * from io_per_object did not return any rows.

No rows fetched.

Can anybody pls help me with this .

The only modification I made in catio.sql is as follows
tail_of_lru raw(4);
this_tail_of_lru raw(4);
into
tail_of_lru raw(8);
this_tail_of_lru raw(8);

Is there any other modification I need to make.

Please help me.

Any quick response is highly appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: Contention [message #361547 is a reply to message #360630]

Wed, 26 November 2008 22:38

dbcop
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Registered: September 2006
Location: india

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A last question before I close this topic

I need to find out the sql queries that are occupying most of the buffer cache in turn causing buffer busy waits for others.

I got a query like this

SQL> SELECT count(*) buffers,obj FROM x$bh WHERE obj in ('459993','469384','460 012') group by obj;

BUFFERS OBJ
---------- ----------
22963 459993
19584 460012
12583 469384

but not getting what the output represents is it showing the number of buffers occupied by the each object?

Thanks

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