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1 or 2% tops - we keep all our instances company-wide with
timed_statistics=true and don't have any performance issues.
Jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_bcbso.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:42 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: timed stats
I have never seen a 10% overhead. Neither has anyone else that has shared their experiences with the list.
Jared
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Uppal, Inde wrote:
> Jared,
> I wonder if you could clarify this for me, the oracle tuning manual says
> that timed_stats can give up to a 10% overhead.
>
> Thanks
> Inde
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_bcbso.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 4:57 PM
> To: Steve Orr
> Cc: Oracle-L Jared's List; oracledba_at_lazydba.com
> Subject: Re: Anyone using statspack? (new for 8.1.6+ only)
>
>
>
> Steve,
>
> Check out http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/00-Mar/o20tun.html
> if you haven't already seen it. It is an article on StatsPack.
>
> As for having timed_statistics=true, the overhead is negligible.
>
> I turn it on in all databases.
>
> Jared
>
>
>
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Steve Orr wrote:
>
> > Anyone using the new statspack which became available as of 8.1.6? It
> looks
> > like a worthy replacement for bstat/estat. (See the files matching
> > $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/stats*.) It provides a sample DBMS_JOB to
gather
> > stats every hour on the hour but to do this properly they want you to
have
> > timed_statistics = TRUE all the time.
> >
> > What are the pros/cons of having timed_statistics permanently turned on?
I
> > know some of the 3rd party monitoring tools want it on all the time. I'm
> > thinking about collecting "performance snapshots" on a periodic basis
with
> > cron so I can toggle timed_statistics on/off.
> >
> > Any recommendations or feedback on timed_statistics?
> >
> > Anyone enthused about or have feedback on statspack?
> >
> > Statspack was covered in the March/April issue of Oracle Magazine.
> >
> >
> > Steve Orr
> >
> >
> >
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