how many LIOs is too many

  • From: Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:31:54 -0600

List,

We have a SQL that is being executed few thousand times in an hour. The SQL
belongs to an application supplied by a 3rd party vendor. The SQL accesses
500 rows from a million row table every time it executes, using idx range
scan. This is spiking up the resource usage consistently.  (Do not know why
an application would need 500 rows constantly, it uses rownum to filter out
top 500 rows after order by asc).

As of now this is the stats:

SQL_ID           FETCHES EXECUTIONS DISK_READS BUFFER_GETS    CPU_SEC
ELAPSEDSEC FIRST_LOAD_TIME
------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------
---------- -----------------------
037xx0tb72t5r     789387     789388         80  1998534791 1719853.25
1820107.77 2013-12-18/08:06:26

The LIO per exec was at ~1600 yesterday, it has gone to 2500 today.

I have couple of questions

1) Has anyone in this list worked on an app that does repeated executions
of a sql retrieving so many rows.
2) Is there any formula to calculate the number of LIOs for a SQL when it
is time to say the sql is doing too many LIOs per exec.

 v11.2
TIA,
Ram.

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