Tuning Buffer Busy Waits

16/08/2010

TCS FS/HYD/ SFMS-NEFT Project

Hari Krishna Pemmasani
hari.pemmasani@tcs.com

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- Note

This document is prepared in a step wise manner rather following general indexing
approach.Because the same can be replicated.

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Step 1:-

Create a table which will have 3 columns of type number.

DROP TABLE test;

create table test(no1 integer,no2 integer,no3 integer) ;

Step 2:-

Create sequence to populate the columns

DROP SEQUENCE testseq1;

create sequence testseq1;

Step 3:- Create a procedure to insert the rows

create or replace procedure testone is

begin
for i in 1..600000 loop
insert into test values(testseq1.nextval,testseq1.nextval,testseq1.nextval);
end loop;
commit;
end;

Step 4: -
Using the below command I will check the no of freelists
In on the object test.

SQL> select FREELISTS from user_tables where TABLE_NAME='TEST';

FREELISTS
----------
1

Step 5:-
I have opened 3 new sessions and placed
The command
SQL>exec testone;

I have execute the procedure

SQL>exec statspack.snap;

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In prefsatat user.
Once I have run the above procedure ,I have started
Execute the procedure testone in all the 3 sessions.

After finishing the execution of the above 3 steps

I had again executed the statspack.snap procedure
In perfstat schema.

Some of the important block of the statspack report are

STATSPACK report for

DB Name DB Id Instance Inst Num Release Cluster Host

------------ ----------- ------------ -------- ----------- ------- ------------
SFMS 1694279656 sfms 1 9.2.0.1.0 NO SFMSEXT-EB30
F5F

Snap Id Snap Time Sessions Curs/Sess Comment

---------------------------------- -------- --------- -----------------------------------
Begin Snap: 15 16-Aug-10 08:48:31 18 3.7
End Snap: 16 16-Aug-10 08:54:14 17 3.9
Elapsed: 5.72 (mins)

Cache Sizes (end)

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Buffer Cache: 24M Std Block Size: 8K
Shared Pool Size: 48M Log Buffer: 512K

Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%)

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Buffer Nowait %: 72.70 Redo NoWait %: 99.90
Buffer Hit %: 100.00 In-memory Sort %: 100.00
Library Hit %: 100.00 Soft Parse %: 100.00
Execute to Parse %: 95.22 Latch Hit %: 98.01
Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %: 91.06 % Non-Parse CPU: -558.82

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Top 5 Timed Events

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ % Total
Event Waits Time (s) Ela Time
-------------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- -------------
buffer busy waits 370,202 1,488 48.00
log file switch (archiving needed) 1,182 1,217 39.24
control file sequential read 18,270 130 4.19
enqueue 107,882 61 1.98
log buffer space 216 49 1.57
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Buffer Pool Statistics for DB: SFMS Instance: sfms Snaps: 15 -16
-> Standard block size Pools D: default, K: keep, R: recycle
-> Default Pools for other block sizes: 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k

Free Write Buffer

Number of Cache Buffer Physical Physical Buffer Complete Busy
P Buffers Hit % Gets Reads Writes Waits Waits Waits
--- ---------- ----- ----------- ----------- ---------- ------- -------- ------------------------------
D 1,500 100.0 1,264,043 50 14,398 40 1 369,591
16k 759 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Buffer wait Statistics for DB: SFMS Instance: sfms Snaps: 15 -16
-> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc

Tot Wait Avg

Class Waits Time (s) Time (ms)
------------------ ----------- ---------- --------------------
data block 369,964 1,072 3
undo header 433 414 956
segment header 202 0 0
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Enqueue activity for DB: SFMS Instance: sfms Snaps: 15 -16

-> Enqueue stats gathered prior to 9i should not be compared with 9i data
-> ordered by Wait Time desc, Waits desc

Avg Wt Wait
Eq Requests Succ Gets Failed Gets Waits Time (ms) Time (s)
-- ------------ ------------ ----------- ----------- ------------- ----------------------
SQ 151,567 151,565 0 100,096 .41 41
HW 2,374 2,374 0 1,435 9.77 14
CF 5,949 5,943 6 30 221.27 7
TX 53,025 53,025 0 33 .48 0
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From the above stataspack report we can observe the Buffer Nowait %
is just 72% ,the Buffer Busy waits in the top 5 wait events and
Buffer Bussy waits in Buffer Pool Statistics.It is clear from the
Buffer wait Statistics the wait is on the datablock..

So,I will just try to increase the freelists of the object test to 3
Since I am executing the same procedure from 3 different sessions
On the same table.

SQL> alter table test storage (freelists 3);

Table altered.

We will check once again wheather the parameter is changed or not.

SQL> select FREELISTS from user_tables where TABLE_NAME='TEST';

FREELISTS
----------
1
After increasing the freelists from one to 3,I will just do the same
Exercise as we have done earlier

I have opened 3 new sessions and placed The command

SQL>exec testone;

I have execute the procedure SQL>exec statspack.snap;

In prefsatat user.

Once I have run the above procedure ,I have started

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Execute the procedure testone in all the 3 sessions.

After finishing the execution of the above 3 steps

I had again executed the statspack.snap procedure
In perfstat schema.

Some of the important block of the statspack report are

DB Name DB Id Instance Inst Num Release Cluster Host

------------ ----------- ------------ -------- ----------- ------- ------------
SFMS 1694279656 sfms 1 9.2.0.1.0 NO SFMSEXT-EB30
F5F

Snap Id Snap Time Sessions Curs/Sess Comment

------- -------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------
Begin Snap: 17 16-Aug-10 09:04:55 18 4.6
End Snap: 18 16-Aug-10 09:07:08 18 4.7
Elapsed: 2.22 (mins)

Cache Sizes (end)

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Buffer Cache: 24M Std Block Size: 8K
Shared Pool Size: 48M Log Buffer: 512K

Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%)

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Buffer Nowait %: 100.00 Redo NoWait %: 100.00
Buffer Hit %: 100.00 In-memory Sort %: 100.00
Library Hit %: 100.00 Soft Parse %: 100.00
Execute to Parse %: 95.22 Latch Hit %: 97.70
Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %: 97.49 % Non-Parse CPU: 98.25

Top 5 Timed Events

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Event Waits Time (s) Ela Time
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CPU time 133 25.01
log buffer space 1,069 104 19.51
enqueue 169,004 79 14.89
db file parallel write 596 54 10.13
free buffer waits 105 41 7.71
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Buffer Pool Statistics for DB: SFMS Instance: sfms Snaps: 17 -18
-> Standard block size Pools D: default, K: keep, R: recycle
-> Default Pools for other block sizes: 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k

Free Write Buffer

Number of Cache Buffer Physical Physical Buffer Complete Busy
P Buffers Hit % Gets Reads Writes Waits Waits Waits
--- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D 1,500 100.0 2,131,189 58 23,105 105 34 19
16k 759 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Buffer wait Statistics for DB: SFMS Instance: sfms Snaps: 17 -18
-> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc

Tot Wait Avg

Class Waits Time (s) Time (ms)
------------------ ----------- ---------- -------------------
segment header 18 0 0
undo header 1 0 0
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Enqueue activity for DB: SFMS Instance: sfms Snaps: 17 -18

-> Enqueue stats gathered prior to 9i should not be compared with 9i data
-> ordered by Wait Time desc, Waits desc

Avg Wt Wait
Eq Requests Succ Gets Failed Gets Waits Time (ms) Time (s)
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SQ 257,285 257,285 0 168,992 .46 78
HW 1,254 1,254 0 7 95.86 1
CF 116 116 0 1 16.00 0
TX 90,350 90,350 0 4 .00 0
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From the above statspack report it shows that the buffer busy waits
were gone.The above report also shows other 2 wait events
enqueue and free buffer waits.Enqueue wait event with SQ reason
is due the oracle sequence.Free buffer waits might be due to
DBWR might not be able to get the free buffers
to write the data.

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Conclusion:-

From the above test we came to know how to tune the Buffer Busy Wait caused by the
freelists.The same wait event can also be caused due the the lesser sizing of
the db_cache_size.In that case please monitor the parameter Buffer Busy Nowait,Buffer Hit
Ratio Parameter in the instance ratio’s of statspack report.

Also note that too much increase in the no of freelists may cause the usage
of index costly.Because for each time an insert happens it looks for the block in
the segment free list(May be ITL) since at any time we will have n no of freelists(n is the no
of freelists).Each insert will write data into different block.So when an index
is created on the above columns the clustering_factor(The no of block switches required to
scan a table.Usually a good index will have no of table blocks plus one) may increase
dramtically.Which leads to non usage of index.

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