As much as the v$"wait" views are touted they do have problems.  First, I believe they 
are only updated every 3 seconds and can miss events.  Second,  examine enough 
samplings from the tables and you'll discover bizarre data.  Events which managed to 
wait say 50 seconds in a single sampling period when the sampling rate was 5 Hz.  On 
the other hand, one may see events which are continuous over many samplings, but their 
wait times are not incremented.

If you really want to know what's going on there's no substitute for a 10046 trace.

N.B., I am not stating the v$"wait" statistics tables are useless just that they have 
their shortcomings.


Ian MacGregor
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Dennis,
        I did some quick & dirty testing by creating a very small(10M) datafile with a 
large(2000m) autoextend clause. On the insert, the session was waiting on 'file open' 
for most of the time. When I did a rollback and reinserted the data, there were no 
waits (that I saw) on file open.

        Interestingly, this wait event does not appear to be accurately tracked in 
v$session_event. In v$session_wait the seconds in wait (last
trapped) was 132. In v$session_event, it shows 0. Okay, gurus, why? Am I missing 
something in this?

select * from v$session_wait where sid = 14
      SID       SEQ# EVENT
---------- ----------
----------------------------------------------------------------
P1TEXT                                                                   P1
P1RAW
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------
----------------
P2TEXT                                                                   P2
P2RAW
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------
----------------
P3TEXT                                                                   P3
P3RAW             WAIT_TIME SECONDS_IN_WAIT
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------
---------------- ---------- ---------------
STATE
-------------------
        14        322 file open
fib                                                              4327126592
0000000101EAB640
iov                                                              4327069760
0000000101E9D840
0                                                                         0
00                       -1             132
WAITED SHORT TIME

select * from v$session_event where sid = 14
       SID EVENT                          TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIMEOUTS
TIME_WAITED AVERAGE_WAIT   MAX_WAIT
---------- ------------------------------ ----------- --------------
----------- ------------ ----------
        14 rdbms ipc reply                          4              1
210         52.5        205
        14 control file sequential read            18              0
16   .888888889         15
        14 local write wait                         1              0
0            0          0
        14 log buffer space                        72              0
1242        17.25         82
        14 log file switch completion               6              0
250   41.6666667         72
        14 log file sync                            4              0
61        15.25         28
        14 db file sequential read                  7              0
1   .142857143          1
        14 db file scattered read                 164              0
152   .926829268          5
        14 db file single write                     2              0
1           .5          1
        14 file identify                            4              0
0            0          0
        14 file open                                6              0
0            0          0
        14 SQL*Net message to client               41              0
0            0          0
        14 SQL*Net message from client             40              0
67829     1695.725      19952


Dan Fink
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Oracle says that when a file autoextends, there is a slight delay. Does anyone know 
which Oracle WAIT statistic that would appear under?
  We have been using autoextend on OLTP production tables for awhile now, and the 
results have been satisfactory. This is an ERP system, so the critical performance 
time is at month-end. Some of the developers are concerned that table autoextending 
may slow batch programs, and suggesting that I should determine which tables are 
likely to autoextend during month-end and add storage beforehand. I would like to 
ensure that I am fixing a real problem (short on time, like most of you), so I am 
wondering if autoextend was causing a delay, what wait statistic would it show up 
under. Any ideas?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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