Re: Low CPU time, no Wait time but high elapsed time

  • From: Toon Koppelaars <toon.koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:07:17 +0200

That could explain it. I have had experiences where a trace-file of a slow
session did not record any waittime with similar observation like yours.
This was due to the fact that the 'slow session' was running inside a VM
that did not get a lot of cpu-cycles allocated from the VM manager.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:45 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The catalog database runs in side an IBM P780 Logical Partition (LPAR)
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> Thanks
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Toon Koppelaars <
> toon.koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Is this a virtualized environment?
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>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:38 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> The other day while I was troubleshooting with 10046 some RMAN resync
>>> issues with the catalog (was taking very long time) I noticed that insert
>>> and update statements were taking extremely long time, one second per
>>> execution more or less. The 10046 trace for the RMAN catalog database
>>> session showed cpu time 10000 microseconds, no waits and elapsed around
>>> 1200000 microseconds. This is 10.2.0.5 running on AIX.
>>>
>>> I did some research and couldnt find any good reason.
>>>
>>> Anyone come across with this sort of issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> LSC
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Toon Koppelaars
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