RE: PX Wait Events...

  • From: "Desai, Bhavik \(MLITS\)" <Bhavik_Desai@xxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:42:33 +0530

Hi All,

                This thread is to clear confusion on PX wait events.

                I am observing that both the consumer sets (or QC-Parent
process) and producer slave sets (px slaves), both are in wait stat. 
                CASE-1

                SERV X_STATUS        X_PID      X_SID      P_SID OSUSER
SCHEMANAME                 CHILD_WAIT                     PARENT_WAIT
                ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
------------ -------------------------- ------------------------------
------------------------------
                P000 IN USE             26         73         62 gtrade1
GTRADE_ENTERPRISE_WRITE    PX Deq: Execution Msg          PX Deq:
Execute Reply
                P001 IN USE             27        213         62 gtrade1
GTRADE_ENTERPRISE_WRITE    PX Deq: Execution Msg          PX Deq:
Execute Reply
                P002 IN USE             32        103         62 gtrade1
GTRADE_ENTERPRISE_WRITE    PX Deq: Execution Msg          PX Deq:
Execute Reply
                P003 IN USE             33        207         62 gtrade1
GTRADE_ENTERPRISE_WRITE    PX Deq: Execution Msg          PX Deq:
Execute Reply
                P004 IN USE             34         94         62 gtrade1
GTRADE_ENTERPRISE_WRITE    PX Deq: Execution Msg          PX Deq:
Execute Reply

                According to Oracle documentation, 'PX Deq: Execution
Msg' wait observed when the PQ slave (Producer slaves-Child) are waiting
to be told what to do.
                And 'PX Deq: Execute Reply' wait is observed when the QC
is expecting a response (acknowledgement) to a control message from the
slaves or is expecting to dequeue data from the producer slave set. This
means he waits that the slaves finished to execute the SQL statement and
that they send the result of the query back to the QC.

                If this is the case, it seems a deadlock happen where
both the producer and consumer are waiting for each other.

                CASE-2

                SERV X_STATUS        X_PID      X_SID      P_SID OSUSER
SCHEMANAME                 CHILD_WAIT                     PARENT_WAIT
                ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
------------ -------------------------- ------------------------------
------------------------------
                P000 IN USE              8        114        117 rptadm2
GTRADE_PRESENTATION_READ   PX Deq Credit: send blkd       SQL*Net
message from client
                P003 IN USE             23        193        117 rptadm2
GTRADE_PRESENTATION_READ   PX Deq Credit: send blkd       SQL*Net
message from client
                P001 IN USE             27        239        117 rptadm2
GTRADE_PRESENTATION_READ   PX Deq Credit: send blkd       SQL*Net
message from client
                P002 IN USE             16         56        117 rptadm2
GTRADE_PRESENTATION_READ   PX Deq Credit: send blkd       SQL*Net
message from client

                In this case, QC (SID 117) has assigned work to px
slave, but according to the waits being observed by procuder slaves (PX
Deq Credit: send blkd), they are waiting for the QC or the consumer
slave.

                Can I have explanation to this? I suspect, I am missing
something somewhere in interpreting PX wait events.

                Regards,
                Bhavik A.Desai
                O R A C L E   D B A
                Merrill Lynch India Technology Services (MLITS),
                GMI - Electronic Trading Data,
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