Particularly, this can be caused by a huge amount of logical IO 
(proportionately dwarfing the amount of disk io and resulting in a 
falsely 'positive' hit ratio).  Take a look at your sqlarea again and 
look at buffer_gets/executions - that may kick up some queries doing 
more logical io than you want.

George
On Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at 10:40 PM, Jared Still wrote:

>
> Did you say 99% hit ratio?
>
> Contrary to a once popular opinion, that is
> not really a good thing.
>
> It often means there's a cartesian product
> in a join, caused by not fully specifying
> the join key. At least that's the reason
> I've usually seen for it.
>
> Keeps disk access down though. :)
>
> Jared
>
> On Tuesday 05 June 2001 05:25, Raj Gopalan wrote:
>> Thanks Chris.
>>
>> The problem I am facing is 100% CPU usage and memory paging out at 
>> times. I
>> tought the starting point is v$sqlarea. Purchasing of Precise SQL or 
>> SQL
>> Vision can not happen here immediately. The RAM size is 512MB and SGA 
>> is
>> 210MB. The buffer cache hit ratio is 99%.
>>
>> I was just wondering is there any way to find out the cause of this
>> problem?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Raj
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: 01 June 2001 19:51
>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>>
>>
>> Oracle has no guarentee how long statistics and plans will be 
>> available for
>> statements, depending on the activity of the database they may be 
>> there for
>> 2 seconds they may be there for 2 weeks.
>>
>> Products like Precise SQL and SQL Vision Lab help in that manor where 
>> they
>> capture transactions and activity continuously in a non-intrusive 
>> manor.
>> This is the only guarenteed way to get 99.999% of the transactions.
>>
>>
>> "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are 
>> easy if
>> both are frozen."
>>
>> Christopher R. Spence
>> Oracle DBA
>> Fuelspot
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:16 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>>
>>
>> DBAs
>>
>> The statistics in v$sqlarea is getting flushed very often.
>>
>> In the morning I found the a query which has more than 10,000 disk 
>> reads as
>> the top one. But now the top most query with disk reads has not more 
>> than
>> 100 disk reads. I have not bouncd the DB or flushed the shared pool. 
>> The
>> overall library cache hit ratio is 97%.where us SQLAREA hit ratio is 
>> 60%.
>>
>> Any Idea what could be reason?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Raj
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