I can't say that I'm 100% sure about the details, but I can say I was = able to observe this behavior many times in environments that mix oltp = (serial transactions) and Data Warehouses (reports that use PQO). Also think about the fact, that direct reads go directly to files/TS = where there might be a chance of having some dirty buffers that belong = to that segment & Tablespace that could really affect the = uniqueness/integrity of data being extracted by direct reads. I'm sure many of the enqueue/X$/v$ experts on this list can correct me = or add more details. Regards, Waleed -----Original Message----- From: Diego Cutrone [mailto:diegocutrone@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 6:54 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: TC Enqueue waits Thank you Waleed Let me confirm what I understood. So you're telling me that when an object needs to be accessed by using = PQO, the session that required this access will (possible) have to wait on a TC enqueue waiting for the dirty buffers to get into disk. did I = get it correctly? I thought the session used to waiting on the cross instance call (CI) enqueue while an object checkpoint was taking place (before a direct = read takes place).... Please, let me know your thoughts. Thanks! Diego. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Khedr, Waleed" <Waleed.Khedr@xxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 10:50 AM Subject: RE: TC Enqueue waits > PQ slaves uses direct reads bypassing the SGA to read the segment = blocks =3D > which requires waiting to flush all committed > changes in the SGA (dirty buffers) of that object to make sure the PQ = =3D > slaves > will access the most recent version of that object. > > Regards, > > Waleed > > -----Original Message----- > From: Diego Cutrone [mailto:diegocutrone@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:25 PM > To: Oracle List > Subject: TC Enqueue waits > > > Hi List. > I have detected high enqueue waits in one instance. > After quering x$ksqst I realized most of them were TX and TC enqueues. > > I'm on the TX enqueues by tracing some sessions. But I have never = heard =3D > of TC enqueues > I have read that TC enqueue stands for "Thread Checkpoint = enqueue".=3D20 > > Anybody knows what are they used for? what kind of resources they =3D > protect? > > And I have another quick question: > > I'm also seeing Parallel query events like: > > PX Deq: Execution Msg > PX Idle Wait > PX qref latch=3D20 > PX Deq: Execute Reply=3D20 > PX Deq: Table Q Normal=3D20 > PX Deq: Parse Reply=3D20 > > Does anybody know where I can get a description for them?=3D20 > I'd like to know which ones can be ignored and which ones can't. > > Thank you very much > Regards > Diego > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------