Rich, 100MB/s at 8KB per block would only be 12,000 logical I/Os per second. I don't know how small, or quiet, your database might be, but pulling up a couple of statspack and AWR report I have on my machine I've got several show their load profile in the 60,000 to 120,000 LIOs per sec, and a busy one running at 320,000 LIOs per se. 12,800 doesn't sound dramatic. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/all-postings Author: Oracle Core (Apress 2011) http://www.apress.com/9781430239543 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Jesse" <rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 8:22 PM Subject: What MB/s is pulled from your buffer cache? | Howdy, | | In our 11.2.0.3 production DB, I was looking at v$sysstat, and happened to | order the view by VALUE DESC for kicks. The highest number is for the | 'logical read bytes from cache' stat and is currently over 500TB. That | seems abnormally large for less than 2 months of our ~800GB DB, so I thought | I'd see what that boils down to in MB/s: | | SELECT | vs.value cache_read_bytes, | vi.startup_time, | ROUND(SYSDATE-vi.startup_time,2) uptime_days, | (SYSDATE-vi.startup_time)*24*60*60 uptime_seconds, | ROUND(vs.value / ((SYSDATE-vi.startup_time)*24*60*60)) bytes_per_sec | FROM v$instance vi, v$sysstat vs | WHERE vs.name = 'logical read bytes from cache'; | | It's over 100MB/s, which my knee jerk (emphasis on the latter) tells me that | this seems abnormally high for our li'l DB. | | I'm curious to see how that number compares to other installations, if folks | are willing. | -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l