Perhaps checking v$db_object_cache for loads, locks, pins, and invalidations
would be helpful in determining if the package is being flushed too often.
Mark Powell
Database Administration
(313) 592-5148
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of Lothar Flatz <l.flatz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 3:29 PM
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Subject: Re: DBMS_SHARED_POOL / pinning for consistent performance
Hi Mark,
what bothers me is the lack of good information, e.g. measurement.
There seemed to be your underlying assumption that the time spent for the long
waits is spent parsing and loading the package.
That is possible. But time could be also spent on I/O.
Is there any good evidence that parsing your package is causing the long waits?
If you had diagnostic and tuning pack installed, you would find good
information in active session history.
If not, a trace might help too.
regards
Lothar
Am 31.03.2020 um 16:17 schrieb McPeak, Matt (Consultant):
We have a very large, packaged software application with tons of PL/SQL code.
One of the PL/SQL APIs, a package which relies on other packages, and so on –
many levels deep – is showing intermittent terrible performance. Usually, the
API returns a response in less than one second. Occasionally, it takes over a
minute.
We think we have identified a pattern showing that the poor performance seems
to follow a period of no activity. That is, if no call is made to the API for
a while, the next call is likely to be excessively slow.
For this reason, we are wondering if caching might have something to do with it
and whether DBMS_SHARED_POOL could help stabilize performance.
My questions are as follows:
1. Would we want to pin the PL/SQL packages or the SQL cursors involved, or
both?
1. Would it be reasonable to purge *everything* from the shared pool (in
test!), run the API, and then query the shared pool as a good way to identify
the objects and/or cursors to pin?
1. What are the dangers and downsides of pinning?
1. We have tons of RAM – is there some way or setting that we could just
size this cache big enough to cache ALL PL/SQL in the application? It’s
enormous (Oracle E-Business Suite), but so is our machine.
Thanks in advance for your attention to any or all of these questions.
Regards,
Matt
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