RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Carel-Jan and Rich, Connor's script to bump up buffer cache hit ratios is meant to be a humor. Only if you carefully comtemplate it will you see that there's no relevance of the fact that you can get any hit ratio to the fact that hit ratios are insufficient in performance tuning. It would

RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Cary Millsap
Yong, Connor's script is not a joke, it's a proof by counterexample that the advice You SQL is tuned if and only if it has a high hit ratio is rubbish. The buffer cache hit ratio is a tool. Used properly, nobody's objecting. It's proper use? To answer the question, What percentage of LIO calls

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Yong: I have not seen all the threads on this. So there are chances some body might have covered this/I may be missing some interesting things..But the issue is, tuning or measuring the database performance ONLY with Hit Ratios. By high hit ratios Damagement will tend to understand , that

Re: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread ryan_oracle
are there really that many people who use hit ratio? From: Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/23 Tue AM 11:49:33 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio Yong, Connor's script is not a joke, it's a proof by counterexample

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Cary Millsap
] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio Yong, Connor's script is not a joke, it's a proof by counterexample that the advice You SQL is tuned if and only if it has a high hit ratio is rubbish. The buffer cache hit ratio is a tool. Used properly, nobody's objecting. It's proper use? To answer

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Jared Still
of list ORACLE-L are there really that many people who use hit ratio? From: Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/23 Tue AM 11:49:33 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio Yong, Connor's script is not a joke, it's a proof

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Goulet, Dick
, December 23, 2003 12:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L are there really that many people who use hit ratio? From: Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/23 Tue AM 11:49:33 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio

RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Bobak, Mark
of list ORACLE-L Cc: Subject:RE: Hit Ratio Yong, Connor's script is not a joke, it's a proof by counterexample that the advice You SQL is tuned if and only if it has a high hit ratio is rubbish. The buffer cache hit ratio is a tool. Used properly, nobody's objecting. It's proper use

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 12:04 23-12-03 -0800, you wrote: Jared, I'm going to take some exception to what Cary has said on the subject, but I believe in the end she'll agree with me. She? Cary, you didn't tell us about this surgery ;-) Dick, last time I saw Cary (October) he was very masculin. I bet this

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Goulet, Dick
SORRY!! Regrettably e-mail does not provide the required info, namely a picture. The only other Cary I know is female, in every sense of the word. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:45 PM To: Multiple recipients

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Chris Stephens
of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio Yong, Connor's script is not a joke, it's a proof by counterexample that the advice You SQL is tuned if and only if it has a high hit ratio is rubbish. The buffer cache hit ratio is a tool. Used properly, nobody's objecting

Re: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Why do people still talk about THE buffer cache hit ratio ? There are lots of them. The one you can get from v$sysstat, the ones you can get from v$buffer_pool_statistics, and the ones you can get from v$segstat. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is

Re: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-23 Thread Connor McDonald
Exactly. select * from v$statname where name like '%gets%' is simple evidence of that. Cheers Connor --- Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people still talk about THE buffer cache hit ratio ? There are lots of them. The one you can get from v$sysstat, the ones you can

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread Jared Still
Well, I guess I could have added a :) after my request on how to fix the hit ratio, but it wouldn't be nearly as much fun. On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 03:29, Mogens Nrgaard wrote: Ah yes, you could introduce heuristically (spelling?!) skewed hit ratios. As Dave Ensor explained at UKOUG, the word

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread Yong Huang
As a friendly reminder, when debunking myths, I suggest we keep sober and never go overboard. The recently popular formula to get an arbitrary hit ratio is not what a database in normal usage naturally gets. Unless a mischievous developer plays a prank, hit ratios are still useful to some extent

RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
My BCHR is currently 96.62%. In the past, it was normally over 99%. What should I do? I'll be waiting for Mladen's reply... :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original

Re: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread ryan_oracle
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio My BCHR is currently 96.62%. In the past, it was normally over 99%. What should I do? I'll be waiting for Mladen's reply... :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator

(U) RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread Johnson, Michael
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio My BCHR is currently 96.62%. In the past, it was normally over 99%. What should I do? I'll be waiting for Mladen's reply... :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL

RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 11:14 22-12-03 -0800, you wrote: My BCHR is currently 96.62%. In the past, it was normally over 99%. What should I do? I'll be waiting for Mladen's reply... :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex,

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/22 Mon PM 02:14:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hit Ratio My BCHR is currently 96.62%. In the past, it was normally over 99%. What should I do? I'll be waiting for Mladen's reply... :) Rich -- Please see the official

RE: RE: Hit Ratio

2003-12-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Rich, you mean due to 'no change mode' you can't even change your hit ratio ... too bad. Happy holidays everyone !! Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Easy, A new formula for the hit ratio Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-21 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - Actually, it isn't SAP. I was simply creating a set of MV's based on SAP tables in another database. Fair enough. I wonder what I need to tune to fix this? stop creating those tables? D Seriously: aren't you getting the I/O as mostly writes during the

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-21 Thread Mogens Nrgaard
Ah yes, you could introduce heuristically (spelling?!) skewed hit ratios. As Dave Ensor explained at UKOUG, the word heuristic in Oracle's optimizer code can be translated directly into constant. So add a number here or there until it fits. Mogens Jonathan Lewis wrote: Easy, A new formula

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-20 Thread Nuno Souto
¦D Unreal, eh? that's SAP for you... Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - Just thought I would share my hit ratio with y'all. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nuno Souto INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: Hit Ratio

2003-12-20 Thread Jared Still
Actually, it isn't SAP. I was simply creating a set of MV's based on SAP tables in another database. The script I was running is used to keep track of how much IO is going on, just to ensure that everything is still working during the build. Once the physical IO exceeds the logical IO, the HR

RE: HIT RATIO

2002-11-19 Thread Fink, Dan
Set up a dbms_job to run the command select 'x' from dual; every 10 seconds or so. I think you'll find that your hit ratio increases quite nicely. Oh, the only potential downside is that your overall system performance might go down, way down! But your ratios are great! It is kind of like taking

Re: HIT RATIO

2002-11-19 Thread Anjo Kolk
Why do care about this? Are people complaining? Anjo. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 8:04 PM Hi One of my database showing hit ratio low (=75% approx).I increased the parameters.After last reboot

RE: HIT RATIO

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Brown
What problem? Seriously, the buffer cache hit ratio is a pretty meaningless value (for details on why, see Cary Millsap's papers on www.hotsos.com). Are your users complaining? Are you seeing behavior on the system (disk contention, etc.) that makes you expect that your users will be complaining

RE: HIT RATIO

2002-11-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
With Connor McDonald's script in the DBA tool kit, no one should be complaining about a bad BCHR. Ever :) ;-) Get the script from his web site : http://www.oracledba.co.uk/ - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash ye

2001-02-09 Thread Gogala, Mladen
How about hiring a consultant? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It had only been up for a few weeks. It could be the buffer cache. -Original Message- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Thursday,

Re: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash yester

2001-02-08 Thread SHAIBAL TALUKDER
If I were you I would check whether anything went wrong with the parameter file while recovering from the crash. MAke sure Pramter settings are as is before the crash. Check your indexes, trigeers. Check whether the packages and procedures are pinned as they were before crash. These are few of

RE: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash ye

2001-02-08 Thread Barbra Hale
Title: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash yesterday I tried that one already!! -Original Message-From: Kimberly Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:19 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Hit Ratio

RE: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash ye

2001-02-08 Thread Brian MacLean
Title: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash yesterday Checkforlostorinvalidindexes -Original Message-From: Barbra Hale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:02 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Hit Ratio fallen

RE: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash ye

2001-02-08 Thread Jesse, Rich
Just wondering...how long was the instance up before the crash? Could it be that your buffer cache just hasn't built up to where it was before the crash? Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

RE: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash ye

2001-02-08 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Barb, pick the slowest application and examine it for the waits. What is the application waiting for? Take a look at v$session_event (cumulative) and v$session_wait (current wait). If you see things like "scattered db file read' or 'sequential db file read', then you have a problem with access

RE: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash ye

2001-02-08 Thread Barbra Hale
Title: RE: Hit Ratio fallen through the floor at 31% since a db crash ye It had only been up for a few weeks. It could be the buffer cache. -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list