Slow performance... urgent help required

From: Saad Khan <saad4u_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:58:21 -0500
Message-ID: <76b3d4e31002041258y3111b9d4v4e44de6cf0f0b760_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Gurus,

I need urgent help.

This is oracle 9.2.0.7 on AIX 5.3

The application support persons and business had been complaining of the extremely slow performance for last three days. They could not run anything. I decided to run the index rebuild and magically they started cheering that things are coming up.
But since today, things went down again. I checked the CPU at server which was as high as 99%. I asked them to stop the app. They did that and the CPU started going down where it should be.
However, problem reappeared in some time again when the CPU was around 70-80% while only few queries were running. Just to check, I ran the following queries at the tables having as much as 34 million rows:

select * from <tablename> where rownum=1;

and it took around 2 min to come up with the result. WTH! It should bring the result in less than a sec just like it does in all other similar environments. Its execution plan shows the cost of 51000. When I got its trace, the trace file clearly shows that even though it is only fetching a single row, it's essentially performing a full table scan (456,000 disk operations). The cost of this query should be 1 or 2 at most.

 The latest statspack report shows the following database ratios:

Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%)

---

            Buffer Nowait %:  100.00       Redo NoWait %:    100.00
            Buffer  Hit   %:   99.36    In-memory Sort %:    100.00
            Library Hit   %:   97.99        Soft Parse %:     92.72
         Execute to Parse %:   37.54         Latch Hit %:     99.94
Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %:   10.51     % Non-Parse CPU:     89.50

 Shared Pool Statistics        Begin   End
                               ------  ------
             Memory Usage %:   94.97   94.74

    % SQL with executions>1: 3.79 3.95   % Memory for SQL w/exec>1: 13.20 13.73

Top 5 Timed Events

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                     %
Total
Event                                               Waits    Time (s) Ela

Time

-------------------------------------------- ------------ -----------
--------
latch free                                         80,839       1,286
31.82
db file sequential read                           402,316         906
22.43
enqueue                                               286         835
20.66
db file scattered read                            267,029         358
8.86
CPU time                                                          323
7.98
          -------------------------------------------------------------


Something is wrong with those tables. Either they are too fragmented or I dont know. Can a database recycle help? What can be the best ways the get those tables defragmented in case these are. I need help urgently please.

Thanks in advance.

Sid

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Received on Thu Feb 04 2010 - 14:58:21 CST