Should I be worried about "ASM Background Timer" wait?

  • From: "Grant Allen" <gxallen@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 02:24:39 +1100

A new consultant on site (and I) are curious about the "ASM Background
Timer" wait, as it's being reported in the top 5 waits. I'm more
interested in confirming if this is just an idle event used by ASM to
indicate that it has nothing to do.  The system (10gR2, Solaris
64-bit, EMC SAN, db of about 40GB) is running relatively well, but
we're curious nonetheless.

Nothing comes back from [technet | www | tahiti | docs].oracle.com,
nor much from Google (just a few appendix listings classing it as an
idle event). Anyone have any background on it?

Ciao
Fuzzy
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