RE: Reading statspack reports

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:49:18 -0500
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As was recently pointed out to me, via a private email, don't lose sight of what, if anything you're trying to solve. I stand by what I said in the previous message, if you're trying to solve a real performance problem. But, consider that your system, no matter how finely tuned, will ALWAYS have 5 Top Timed events, at least until Oracle can answer your questions before you ask them. If there is a real performance problem, then analyzing the Top 5 Timed events is a good place to start. Don't fall victim to CTD! ;-)

-Mark

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Bobak, Mark Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:21 PM
To: cemail_219_at_hotmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Reading statspack reports

http://www.oraperf.com/ does a pretty good analysis of StatsPack reports. It's probably worth a look.

I always start with a quick check of Execute to Parse % and % Non-parse CPU in the instance efficiency percentages. After that it's on to the Top 5 Timed Events. From there, it really depends on what events appear in the Top 5.

CPU time? Look at your SQL ordered by Gets.....any SQLs doing insane numbers of buffer gets/exec?
db file sequential read? Again, look at SQL ordered by Gets, and possibly also SQL ordered by Reads.
db file scattered read? Again, poorly tuned sql.... enqueues? Needs more analysis...could be application design issues, could be block level concurrency, could be several different things, you need to deep dive into the enqueues data and see which specific enqueues have the most waits.
log file sync? Look at commit frequency and also response time of the disks the online redo logs are on latch free? Depends on the latch. Cache buffers chains is likely to be either inefficient SQL, or possibly some Oracle bug

This is a *far* from complete list....The idea is, start with the Top 5 Timed Events, cause that's where the bottlenecks are. Depending on what YOUR Top 5 are, will tell you where to go next.

Hope that helps,

-Mark

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Mark J. Bobak
Senior Oracle Architect
ProQuest Information & Learning

"Exception: Some dividends may be reported as qualified dividends but are not qualified dividends. These include:

Dividends you received on any share of stock that you held for less than 61 days during the 121-day period that began 60 days before the ex-dividend date. The ex-dividend date is the first date following the declaration of a dividend on which the purchaser of a stock is not entitled to receive the next dividend payment. When counting the number of days you held the stock, include the day you disposed of the stock but not the day you acquired it. See the examples below. Also, when counting the number of days you held the stock, you cannot count certain days during which your risk of loss was diminished. See Pub. 550 for more details." --IRS, Form 1040-A Instruction Booklet, Line 9b: Qualified Dividends

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of J. Dex Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:14 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Reading statspack reports

Does anyone have a quick cheat sheet for reading statspack reports or can
refer me to a site where I can obtain it? I've seen a lot of stuff on Metalink but nothing that is short of quick and to the point.

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