RE: "cursor: pin S wait on X" during Benchmark Run

From: Ukja.dion <ukja.dion_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:03:32 +0900
Message-ID: <47784e08.0d528c0a.502e.ffffbb21@mx.google.com>


This wait is related with cursor mutex and generally with hard parse. Oracle 10g introduced the concept of mutex which is lighter than traditional library cache pin.

Mutex is expected to be lightweight and beneficial for cursor manipulation performance.
But, unfortunately, it sometimes causes problems. Many bugs are reported high wait time for mutex contention.

To turn off the mutex, you can set "_kks_use_mutex_pin" hidden parameter to false.
Search metalink for similar phenomenons and you will find many valuable informations.

Anyway, how frequent hard parses do you have?

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of VIVEK_SHARMA
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 12:44 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org; tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee; sfaroult_at_roughsea.com; Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us; mwf_at_rsiz.com; krish.hariharan_at_quasardb. com; kevinc_at_polyserve.com; Prashant.Dabadge_at_e-hps.com; gorbyx_at_gmail.com; greg_at_structureddata.org; rjamya_at_gmail.com; alvaro.fernandez_at_sivsa.com Subject: "cursor: pin S wait on X" during Benchmark Run

Folks

Oracle 10.2.0.3 (NON-RAC), Solaris 10
In a Benchmark Run, on Firing 2000 Application processes connecting VIA 24 dispatchers & 100 Shared Servers, getting the following WAITs NOTE - This wait is NOT occuring when firing 700 (Lesser Number of) Application processes connecting to the Database via the same MTS Setup. NOTE - This wait is also NOT occuring in production where 20,000 Application processes connect via a similar MTS Setup. DB CPU Usage is 25 % , APP CPU usage is 8 %

Is this a BUG? How is this to be approached?

Should the BLOCKING & Waiting SQLs/sessions be identified? Will the following SQL Script work:-
SELECT s.sid, s.username,

e.wait_time,
b.sql_text,
m.p1,m.p2,m.p3

from v$session s, v$session_wait e, v$sqlarea b, v$MUTEX_SLEEP_HISTORY m where m.p1= e.p1
and s.username is not null
and s.sid = e.sid
and s.sql_address=b.address

order by e.wait_time;
Cheers & Thanks

Vivek

P.S.

Top 5 Timed Events                                                    Avg
%Total
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                   wait
Call
Event                                            Waits    Time (s)   (ms)
Time
----------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- ------ --
----
CPU time                                                     7,561
52.1
cursor: pin S wait on X                        272,212       4,345     16
29.9
^LMutex Sleep DB/Inst: PNB70MB/PNB70MB Snaps: 397-407
-> ordered by Wait Time desc
 

Wait

Mutex Type         Location                                 Sleeps     Time
(s)
------------------ -------------------------------- -------------- ---------
---
Cursor Pin         kkslce [KKSCHLPIN2]                     178,039
2,583.1
Cursor Pin         kksfbc [KKSCHLFSP2]                     148,073
1,675.8
Cursor Pin         kksfbc [KKSCHLPIN1]                         284
3.2
Cursor Pin         kksLockDelete [KKSCHLPIN6]               13,883
2.6
Cursor Parent      kksfbc [KKSPRTLOC1]                     245,448
1.2
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