It sounds like to me you are reading fasting than you are writing, which would be a normal state. On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Martin Klier <usn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Riyaj Shamsudeen schrieb: > > Martin > > As you correctly pointed out, PX slaved are blocked. > > One obvious reason I can think is smaller large pool. What is your > > large pool size set to ? Do you use ASMM - Automatic Shared memory > > management stuff? If yes, do you see any growth or shrink for large pool > > ? If large pool is not configured, it is possible that shared pool > > fragmentation to cause PX slaves to wait for these PX events. v$sgastat > > is a good place to start. > > Uh, the large pool approach sounds cool, I will check this ASAP. > > What I did so far: > > The SGA autotuning features are enabled (SGA_TARGET set), and > shared_pool_size has been set to zero. I've added up the shared pool > bytes from v$sgastat, and I ended up with about 120MB. > > Since RAM is no problem on this box, I changed SHARED_POOL_SIZE manually > to 512MB recently (what, of course did not change anything for the > running query described above. Yes, it's still running...). Why 512MB? I > followed > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14237/initparams197.htm#CHDGGAIB > > > What other events do you in statspack report or AWR report during that > > time frame? > Nothing that really matters, I just can't access the system at the > moment, if important I'd have to post that on monday. > > Thanks so far, > Martin > -- > Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk > http://www.usn-it.de > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'