My bad.
I should also have posted the 10046 trace. I did a 10046 trace and also a
STATSPACK report. Of the total time, more than 50% of the time is spent
waiting on "DIRECT PATH WRITE" and around 40% of the time it waits on
"DIRECT PATH READ". This is what prompted me to do a truss and see what it
is doing..
>From one of the Veritas whitepapers - I found this
Quick I/O allows databases to access regular files on a VxFS file system as
raw character devices,
improving throughput for Oracle databases. Unlike raw devices, Quick I/O
files can still be
managed as regular UNIX files.
There are three requirements to use Quick I/O:
1. Quick I/O driver (VRTSqio) must be loaded before a regular file can be
accessed through
the Quick I/O interface.
2. Files must be preallocated on a VxFS file system.
The file must be preallocated because the file cannot be extended through
writes via its Quick
I/O interface. This preallocation can be done using the qiomkfile command.
This
command ensures that the file is created as a single large extent, or as a
chain of direct
extents. Using direct extents is inherently faster than using indirect
extents.
3. The file must be accessed via its Quick I/O name extension
(::cdev:vxfs:).
In a VxFS file system, a file can be accessed using two types of interface:
regular file and
device file. The device file interface allows a regular file to be accessed
as a raw character
device. This is achieved by using the Quick I/O naming extension of
::cdev:vxfs:
while accessing a regular file.
For example, a file named system.dbf can be accessed as a raw character
device when
the name system.dbf::cdev:vxfs: is used for database access.
Converting Oracle Database Files on VERITAS File System to use Quick/IO
The scripts getdbfiles.sh and mkqio.sh are provided to easily change Oracle
database
files to use Quick I/O. The database files must be on VxFS file systems
before they can be
converted. The getdbfiles.sh script is a shell script that can be run by
the Oracle DBA
(with appropriate user ID) while the database instance is up and running.
This script extracts the
filenames from the system tables of the database and stores the filenames
in a file called
mkqio.dat.
Alternatively, you can manually create the mkqio.dat file containing the
Oracle database
filenames to convert for use with Quick I/O.
The mkqio.sh script processes a list of filenames in the file mkqio.dat and
converts them
to use Quick I/O. This conversion process should be performed while the
database is closed. The
mkqio.sh script must also be run by the Oracle user of the database
instance to avoid any
permission problems.
I think Quick IO is needed on VxFS to perform KAIO calls. Have anyone done
this before?
Any input is greatly appreciated.
Babu
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I wish now that I hadn't deleted what I composed this morning... It was
this:
People probably get sick of seeing me say the same thing over and over
and over... You have some interesting information from the truss that
you've done. But you can't tell how long something took by counting how
many times it happened. The easiest way to determine what's consuming
the most *time* is to use extended SQL trace (event 10046 level 8). The
resulting trace file will tell you exactly where your time has gone, and
it will enable you to determine whether your performance problem is a
result of the kaio calls or not.
You'll probably find that the system is doing what you suspect: issuing
an async write call, failing, and then calling a synchronous write call.
However, without knowing the impact of this behavior upon response time,
it's hard to know whether the time you invest into "checking" stuff and
"fixing" stuff is worth anything. The worst feeling is to invest your
time into fixing something, succeeding, and then finding you've made no
impact because the thing you fixed accounts for only a small amount of
response time.
...Find out what activity is consuming the largest chunk of your
response time, and then try to figure out how to do that thing less. The
cheapest, fastest, most error-free way that I know to do that is to
collect the 10046 level-8 data.
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I did this and its taking the same amount of time. The difference this
time
is that it does not do the KAIO call. But the time has not improved. Its
still doing pwrite calls.
TIA
Babu
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Babu,
> I think it is trying to do a KAIO call and failing. Then it attempts a
> synchronous PWRITE call.
>
> But our SAs are not able to help us to confirm this. Have any
> of you seen
> this issue?
I think you have hit the nail on the head. By default, the Oracle port
on
Solaris sets 'disk_async_io' to TRUE. Set this to FALSE by introducing
such
an entry in init.ora. Let us know if tihis solves your issue...
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