Re: negative IO numbers when viewing Cumulative IO with OEM

From: Billy <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: 19 Aug 2005 03:36:12 -0700
Message-ID: <1124447772.839636.167640@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

mnguice_at_gmail.com wrote:

> Negative numbers dropped to -300 ms... Strange. The IBM Vendor said it
> was a the Oracle Enterprise Manager software, but I don't know.
>
> Does this sound accurate? Has anyone experienced this before?

Seen negative numbers numerous time in Oracle V$ stat tables. The only explanation I have is overflow. The statistical numeric value overflows and wraps around as a negative - and seems to be the case as it usually happens with very large statistical values that turn into negatives.

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Billy

Received on Fri Aug 19 2005 - 05:36:12 CDT