You sir, are one hell of a great communicator!  I'm placing my order now...


on 9/5/03 7:19 AM, Cary Millsap at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Yes. Even with TIMED_STATISTICS=TRUE, relying on *any* statistic with
> system-wide scope can waste your time. For a 34-page introduction to the
> rationale behind this proposition, see:
> 
>        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/optoraclep/chapter/ch01.pdf
> 
> 
> Cary Millsap
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Wolfgang Breitling
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:44 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> The number of waits is irrelevant. What matters is the time waited which
> in 
> your case shows 0, but I assume that is because you have not set
> timed_statistics to true. Without that the data from v$system_event are
> worthless. Cary will probably step in here and tell you that even with
> timed_statistics that data is at best of dubious worth.
> 
> At 02:49 PM 9/4/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> 
>>                                 System-wide Wait Analysis
>>                                  for current wait events
>> 
>> 
> Average
>> Event                                 Total  Seconds        Total
> Wait
>> Name                                Waits  Waiting     Timeouts  (in
> secs)
>> -------------               ---------   ---------       ---------
>> -----------
>> latch free                            1,459        0         1,393
> .000
>> 
>> After querying v$system_event my biggest concern is the "latch free"
> wait
>> event. I understand that latch free is "the process waits for a latch
> that
>> is currently busy ( held by another process).    How can I drill down
> and
>> find the cause of this?   I have a feeling it is about rollback or redo
>> logs.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David Ehresmann
>> 
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