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[John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxx>]

Aaaand, for those of you still at Oracle 8i, the "OTHER_WAIT" column in
9i/10g has a space in 8i, so the correct SQL for *8i* databases is:

SELECT WH.KCBWHDES "MODULE",SW.WHY0 "CALLS",SW.WHY2 "WAITS", SW."OTHER WAIT"
"CAUSED WAITS"
FROM x$kcbwh WH, x$kcbsw SW
WHERE WH.indx = SW.indx
AND SW."OTHER WAIT" > 0
ORDER BY SW."OTHER WAIT" 

Sorry KG - Couldn't resist :(   [See my notes in the OWI book AR]

John

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of K Gopalakrishnan
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:57 PM
To: Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: buffer busy waits

Allen:

You can findout what are the _exact_ system calls causing the buffer busy
waits using the following SQL.  This will give a fair idea about the
operations causing the bbw and you can narrow down the cause/action from the
result.

SELECT WH.KCBWHDES "MODULE",SW.WHY0 "CALLS",SW.WHY2 "WAITS", SW.OTHER_WAIT
"CAUSED WAITS" 
FROM x$kcbwh WH, x$kcbsw SW
WHERE WH.indx = SW.indx
AND SW.OTHER_WAIT > 0
ORDER BY SW.OTHER_WAIT;

Basically by reducing the concurrency at block level, you can easily combat
the BBWs.


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Best Regards,
K Gopalakrishnan
Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface, Oracle Press 2004
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/
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