Re: excessive number of db writer

Hi

This is a OLTP CRM system which supports 4000 concurrent users, concurrent active users probably around 70, 80.

I just been told its not from an Oracle Consultant, it is from a TEAM of them! 2 from Oracle On Site Support DBA, 2 from some other Consultancy.

The reason of changing row cache, shared subpool and shared pool latches is because they say they migrated some billing system last year from 8i to 9i and the systme run smoothly with these settings.

Regarding DBWR, this one got me, the reasong they give to me is just to increase the number of CACHE LRU LATCHES! I thought you could increase that using _db_block_lru_latches instead of messing around database writers....

Well you know, I can discuss with one but against 4 and two are from Oracle Support.............

Thanks

Alex

On 9/6/06, K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
> Did you get an explanation for those suggestions? It would be difficult
> for us to comment on those changes without any additional details..
>
> However, However,However, 20 DBWriters are certainly high for your
> configuration ;)
>
> Have a nice day !!
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> K Gopalakrishnan,
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2006 1:39:51 AM
> Subject: excessive number of db writer
>
> Hi
>
> I have been suggested by some Oracle Consultant to set 20 Database Writer
> in a 12 CPU HP-UX Server.
>
> Does anyone know what are the side effects of having excessive DBWR? I
> detected a higher CPU usage (between, 1% to 2%) not sure if its due to the
> number of Database Writer. Because when I increased the number of DBWR at
> init.ora I also changed these parameters
>
> _row_cache_cursors = 60
> _kgl_latch_count = 59
> _kghdsidx_count = 4
> statistics_level = basic
>
> again suugested by this guy.
>
> TIA
>
> Alex
>
>
>

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