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All: Thanks for the replies!
And yes, it's a data block. The query has been executed over 3,500 times since this site went live about 5 days ago. I believe I'll check into overindexing just as suggested, either that, go over and shoot the programmers responsible for this travesty. I had already noted the problem with the CHECK_ID column and was going to suggest making it NOT NULL and using a default value.
BTW, the PK for this table has 7 columns, and CUSTOMER_ID is buried in the 4th position.
However, why is it completely stalled? I'm seeing idle times of 10-12 hours, and as you can see another sessions have joined the fun, but it all is hung on the same block id. There has been no movement in 10 hours:
259 buffer busy waits file# 72 block# 109177 id 130 303 buffer busy waits file# 72 block# 109177 id 130 327 buffer busy waits file# 72 block# 109177 id 130159 db file scattered read file# 72 block# 109177 blocks 8
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:sfaroult_at_oriole.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:35 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Buffer Busy Waits -- Sanity check please
> Thomas Jeff wrote:
>
> We recently had a new website go live. Since then, I'm seeing
> constant buffer busy waits
> and after a period of time, I see sessions hung on the same block#.
> The SQL query
> is always a COUNT(*) (below). It's almost as though one session has
> a lock
> of some sort in the buffer cache and other sessions are blocked.
> Although, I've checked and
> there's no DML ongoing, so I'm unsure as to why we would see this.
> Note that v$session shows
> 78 and 393 to be INACTIVE, while 159 is ACTIVE. So it's like 159
> can't write to
> the buffer cache because 78 and 393 have a lock there. Note that
> these are all defined
> as persistent connections, via the Vignette front-end. I'm sure all
> the clues are there
> but my brain is too fuzzed to piece it together.
>
> SID SQL_TEXT
> 159 SELECT COUNT(*) NUM,SUM(TOTAL_CHARGE_AMT) TOT FROM BBN.BBN_SRV
> 159 _PAID_WARR_CLAIM WHERE CUSTOMER_ID = :b1 AND ENTERPRISE_CD = :
> 159 b2 AND (CHECK_ID IS NOT NULL AND CHECK_ID != 'PENDING' )
> SID EVENT P1TEXT P1 P2TEXT P2
> 78 buffer busy waits file# 72 block# 109177
> 393 buffer busy waits file# 72 block# 109177
> 159 db file scattered read file# 72 block# 109177
SELECTs sometimes do some block house-keeping, and thus modify Oracle buffers even if they are not supposed to. I have also witnessed strange behaviours with IOTs. What do other queries do? Have you checked V$SQLAREA to know whether this query is executed very often or not? I guess that at least CUSTOMER_ID is indexed (BTW it would be interesting to know whether the busy block is a data or index block. Try this :
select owner, segment_name, partition_name, segment_type
from dba_extents
where file_id = 72
and block_id <= 109177
and 109177 < block_id + blocks
If the block is a table block, you can fudge the issue by making Oracle only look into an index storing all referenced columns (which would probably also mean making CHECK_ID not null, side-effects on your code). If it's an index block, it's more delicate to handle.
If your query is executed very often, denormalizing might also be an idea. I am no great fan of denormalisation but a trigger to maintain a count and a sum would be comparable in overhead cost to an additional index.
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