Re: LOG_BUFFER
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 08:26:25 -0400
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Thanks Mladen. I have see these too when researching some of the redo log related parameters. Specifically, I was looking to see if there was a way to influence how lgwr decides how many workers will be used. I couldn't find any documentation either.
Ram
From: Mladen Gogala
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:35 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: LOG_BUFFER
On 05/17/2016 02:59 PM, Ram Cheruvattath wrote:
Hi
We have a 12c database that has very high redo generation (4TB/hr). Our log_buffer is set to 1GB.
Is there a downside to setting log_bugger this big?
Thanks
Ram
Ram, we have talked about multi-threaded log writer in 12c few days ago. In the meantime, I did some digging and found some new undocumented parameters:
_adaptive_scalable_log_writer_enable_worker_threshold Increase in redo generation rate as a percentage _adaptive_scalable_log_writer_disable_worker_threshold Percentage of overlap across multiple outstanding writes _adaptive_scalable_log_writer_sampling_count Evaluate single versus scalable LGWR every N writes _adaptive_scalable_log_writer_sampling_time Evaluate single versus scalable LGWR every N seconds _adaptive_scalable_log_writer_enable_worker_aging Per million of redo gen rate when LGWR workers were last used Of course, there is nothing about these parameters on the support.oracle.com. The good, old times when it was possible to figure out how things work by digging through the Oracle support documents are a long gone era. However, I was able to dig out few things from Jonathan's site:
https://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/12c-trivia/ https://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/12c/
Not much more than we've already discussed, but still worth reading. I would expect multi-threaded writer to be able to cope with much larger buffers than we have seen in 11G. I don't think that in 12c having 1G log buffer is a bad idea. However, the only sign you will get that your log buffer is too small are log buffer space wait events in V$SYSTEM_EVENT. I guess that there is a feature called "adaptive scalable log writer" which will appear in some kind of an internals book when people at Oracle Corp. decide do tell someone about it.
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