Re: Reading/Interpreting 11g Statspack reports

  • From: Karl Arao <karlarao@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: janine@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:07:16 +0800

Hi Janine,

I suggest you also read Kyle's stuff on Statspack...
http://www.perfvision.com/ftp/emea/00_statspack.ppt

And if you have more time, better read the first 8 slides to get a
better overview of what's the use of Statspack as compared to ASH
samples plus the pros and cons.

      00_intro.ppt            29-Sep-2008 17:25  661K
      00_statspack.ppt        29-Sep-2008 17:25  3.0M
      01_AAS.ppt              29-Sep-2008 17:25  3.6M
      02_ASH.ppt              29-Sep-2008 17:26  3.0M
      02a_OEM_demo.ppt        29-Sep-2008 17:26  1.7M
      02b_SASH.ppt            29-Sep-2008 17:26  963K
      03a_OEM_perf.ppt        29-Sep-2008 17:27  7.5M
      04_NEW_features.ppt     29-Sep-2008 17:27  3.2M

For me, I use Statspack/AWR to characterize the workload and capacity
planning (CPU,IO,etc)... then for session level details (drilldowns) I
rely on ASH or any tool that does the sampling technique - if you
don't have the diagnostic license (SASH,trial version of DB
Optimizer,trial version of LAB128)

As for the good source of deciphering the Statspack/AWR reports.. I
would suggest reading the Chapter 9 of Craig Shallahamer’s book Oracle
Performance Firefighting.. you would have an idea of how to do Oracle
Response Time Analysis (ORTA) plus getting your database server's
Capacity & Requirements (the essential performance math) plus
correlating it with the Operating System,Oracle, and Application
activity (3 Circle Analysis).. very useful stuff..




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