Your statement "there are several bugs relating to waiting for latch-free
on cache-buffer-chains, and the possibility of the instance hanging. " has
me nervous.

I am aware of 1967363 and have obtained the standalone patch for this to be
applied on top of 8.1.7.2  I have
seen significant wait times for cache buffer chains latch in my 8.1.7.1
test environment and am waiting for the
environment to be released to me so that I can upgrade it to
8.1.7.2.1+1967363  (our production is still 8.0.5 !!).

What other bugs are you talking off ?
Hemant


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If on 8.1.7, there are several bugs relating to waiting for latch-free on
cache-buffer-chains, and the possibility of the instance hanging.

One is 1967363, and at least two others are still open after applying that
patch.

Changing cache buffer latches/buckets is not mentioned in those bugs, and
since they are underscored, I would approach with caution.


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/01 08:30AM >>>
Vivek:
    To combat the latch free- cache buffer chain problem, I would first
check in v$latch_children if the contention is even across all cache buffer
chain latches. If this is the case case (most of the time it is not) , I
would add more cache buffer latches. If this is not the case, as ARUN
suggested, I would find out which buffers are hot and I would investigate
WHY they are hot. (Ussually because of a bad SQL-- you should fix them! )
    According to BBW problem, try to identify the segment involved and the
cause (p1=file , p2=block and p3=cause from a 10046 trace) and then
according to p3 there are some changes that can be done.

HTH
Diego

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> What are u seeing the buffer busy waits on is it for the read intensivity
> and latch free is showing that there are hot blocks why dont you find out
> the hot blocks and find what can  be done about it
>
>
> >From: "VIVEK_SHARMA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: buffer busy wait & latch free ( cache buffer chain )
> >Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 01:55:19 -0800
> >
> >
> >In report.txt we are getting the wait
> >"buffer busy wait" _& wait on "latch free" for "cache buffer chain"
> >
> >Could an excessively Large db_block_buffer cause this ?
> >
> >NOTE - Transaction OLTP in nature
> >
> >NOTE - freelists is set = 2* cpu_count
> >
> >Any oher advice ?
> >


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