Latch Contention

  • From: "Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)" <venu_potluri@xxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:55:03 -0500

Today we had problems with latch contention in our production Oracle Apps 
database. I saw lots of latch free waits, of the cache buffer chains and 
library cache variety. I looked for the most resource intensive sessions. But 
nothing stood out. Finally I flushed the shared pool (Cary Millsap is going to 
cringe at this time........). That cleared all the latch free waits and users 
reported better performance. Didn't want to flush the shared pool but had to do 
it due to month end close processing that was getting severly bogged down. I 
still haven't found the root cause. My question is where to look for the root 
cause next time. 

Here are some stats I gathered while the problem occurred.


NAME                              GETS  Miss %  Spin %        IGETS   IMISSES
------------------------- ------------ ------- ------- ------------ ---------

intra txn parallel recove            0     .00     .00            0         0
ry
parallel txn reco latch              0     .00     .00            0         0
address list                         1     .00     .00            0         0
mostly latch-free SCN                2     .00     .00            0         0
NLS data objects                     2     .00     .00            0         0
Direct I/O Adaptor                   2     .00     .00            0         0
message pool operations p            3     .00     .00            0         0
arent latch
begin backup scn array              37     .00     .00            0         0
X$KSFQP                             39     .00     .00            0         0
archive process latch              167     .00     .00            0         0
file number translation t          285     .00     .00            0         0
able
ktm global data                    300     .00     .00            0         0
archive control                    927     .00     .00            0         0
longop free list                 1,160     .00     .00            0         0

NAME                              GETS  Miss %  Spin %        IGETS   IMISSES
------------------------- ------------ ------- ------- ------------ ---------
device information               1,710     .00     .00            0         0
kwqit: protect wakeup tim        2,811     .00     .00            0         0
dictionary lookup                3,250     .00     .00            0         0
global tx free list              3,763     .00     .00            0         0
sort extent pool                 4,086     .00     .00            0         0
loader state object freel        6,103     .00     .00            0         0
ist
ncodef allocation latch          9,642     .00     .00            0         0
job_queue_processes param        9,642     .00     .00            0         0
eter latch
hash table modification l            0     .00     .00       22,991         0
atch
session switching               24,272     .00     .00            0         0
i/o slave adaptor                    0     .00     .00       36,912         0
vecio buf des                        0     .00     .00       36,912         0
library cache load lock         38,888     .04  100.00            0         0

NAME                              GETS  Miss %  Spin %        IGETS   IMISSES
------------------------- ------------ ------- ------- ------------ ---------
event group latch               40,868     .00     .00            0         0
transaction branch alloca       53,467     .00     .00            0         0
tion
process group creation          80,972     .00     .00            0         0
channel handle pool latch       80,981     .00     .00            0         0
process allocation              40,868     .04     .00       40,863 .01223601
channel operations parent      121,890     .00     .00            0         0
 latch
global tx hash mapping         158,890     .00     .00            0         0
user lock                      180,484     .01   68.42            0         0
Token Manager                  181,487     .00  100.00       36,912         0
sequence cache                 341,190     .01   89.66            0         0
active checkpoint queue l      695,343     .00     .00            0         0
atch

list of block allocation     1,130,452     .00  100.00            0         0
dml lock allocation          1,322,672     .00  100.00            0         0
redo writing                 1,598,340     .08   99.10            0         0
global transaction           2,039,041     .00     .00            0         0

NAME                              GETS  Miss %  Spin %        IGETS   IMISSES
------------------------- ------------ ------- ------- ------------ ---------
transaction allocation       2,532,521     .00  100.00            0         0
undo global data             2,744,812     .00  100.00            0         0
enqueue hash chains          3,303,961     .00   94.44            0         0
enqueues                     3,814,510     .01   99.50            0         0
session allocation           4,803,687     .04   92.49            0         0
messages                     5,014,273     .06   99.27            0         0
multiblock read objects     10,086,892     .02   99.42            2         0
session idle bit            13,586,255     .00  100.00            0         0
row cache objects           16,937,164     .08   99.75           89 1.1235955
checkpoint queue latch      23,051,771     .00   67.45            0         0
redo copy                       13,680     .00     .00   36,266,260 .00756626
redo allocation             36,522,674     .01   99.87            0         0
cache buffer handles        82,954,716     .32   99.93            0         0
cache buffers lru chain     36,022,870     .14   96.82   79,027,986 .16287268
shared pool                379,947,867     .16   98.51            0         0
latch wait list            317,618,315    5.94   99.76  297,982,053 5.0251922
library cache             ############  293.06   94.87      819,140 3.7733477
cache buffers chains      ############     .16   99.78  107,818,804 .02991315




                                       spin   sl01  sl02  sl03  sl04  sl05
NAME                       GETS Miss % sl06   sl07  sl08  sl09  sl10  sl11
------------------ ------------ ------ ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
cache buffers chai ############    0.2   99.8   0.2   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
library cache      ############  #####   94.9   4.0   0.7   0.4   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
shared pool         379,948,308    0.2   98.5   0.3   0.7   0.4   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
latch wait list     317,630,086    5.9   99.8   0.2   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
cache buffer handl   82,954,716    0.3   99.9   0.1   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
redo allocation      36,522,674    0.0   99.9   0.1   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
cache buffers lru    36,022,877    0.1   96.8   3.2   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
checkpoint queue l   23,051,900    0.0   67.4  32.6   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
row cache objects    16,937,179    0.1   99.8   0.2   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
session idle bit     13,586,307    0.0  100.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0

                                       spin   sl01  sl02  sl03  sl04  sl05
NAME                       GETS Miss % sl06   sl07  sl08  sl09  sl10  sl11
------------------ ------------ ------ ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
multiblock read ob   10,086,892    0.0   99.4   0.6   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
messages              5,014,290    0.1   99.3   0.7   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
session allocation    4,803,691    0.0   92.5   7.3   0.1   0.1   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
enqueues              3,814,532    0.0   99.5   0.5   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
enqueue hash chain    3,303,974    0.0   94.4   5.6   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
undo global data      2,744,812    0.0  100.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
transaction alloca    2,532,523    0.0  100.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
redo writing          1,598,345    0.1   99.1   0.9   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
dml lock allocatio    1,322,672    0.0  100.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
list of block allo    1,130,452    0.0  100.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0

                                       spin   sl01  sl02  sl03  sl04  sl05
NAME                       GETS Miss % sl06   sl07  sl08  sl09  sl10  sl11
------------------ ------------ ------ ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
sequence cache          341,190    0.0   89.7  10.3   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
Token Manager           181,487    0.0  100.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
user lock               180,484    0.0   68.4  26.3   5.3   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
process allocation       40,868    0.0    0.0  93.3   6.7   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
library cache load       38,888    0.0  100.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
                                         0.0    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0


   CHILD# ROUND(SLEEPS/GETS*100,2)     RATIO
--------- ------------------------ ---------
       12                        0       100
       11                        0       100
       10                        0       100
        9                        0       100
        8                        0       100
        7                        0       100
        6                        0       100
        5                        0       100
        4                        0       100
        3                        0       100
        2                        0       100
        1                        0       100 
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