We run statistics on schemas as shown below: - Once a week on ALL schemas - Daily on the custom schema On this particular table, gather statistic was run on 30-JAN-2012 and the job ran longer on 31-JAN-2012 and 01-FEB-2012. The explain plan for this statement is: Rows Row Source Operation ------- --------------------------------------------------- 1 FOR UPDATE (cr7248 pr#51 pw=0 time=0 us) 2 SORT ORDER BY (cr7248 pr#51 pw=0 time=0 us cost=9 size!6 card=2) 1 CONCATENATION (cr7248 pr#51 pw=0 time=0 us) 0 FILTER (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us) 0 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID MTL_ONHAND_QUANTITIES_DETAIL (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=4 size8 card=1) 0 INDEX RANGE SCAN MTL_ONHAND_QUANTITIES_N5 (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=3 size=0 card=1)(object id 402327) 1 FILTER (cr7248 pr#51 pw=0 time=0 us) 1 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID MTL_ONHAND_QUANTITIES_DETAIL (cr7248 pr#51 pw=0 time=0 us cost=4 size8 card=1) 203798 INDEX RANGE SCAN MTL_ONHAND_QUANTITIES_N5 (cr00 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=3 size=0 card=1)(object id 402327) Amir From: John Clarke [mailto:john.clarke@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 12:21 PM To: Hameed, Amir; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: High buffer gets Without seeing any SQL statements or execution plans, I'd probably guess it's statistics-related (i.e., they're out-of-date, missing, etc). Difficult to say though without seeing more of the trace file. - John From: "Hameed, Amir" <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: "Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx" <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:31:46 -0500 To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: High buffer gets Folks, We have an Oracle ERP system (11.5.10) with database version 11.1.0.7 running on Solaris 9. There are batch jobs, submitted via concurrent managers, that have been running fine for a long time. About two weeks ago, we went through a release cycle where new code and functionality was introduced into this environment and since then some of the critical jobs that have been running fine are now running longer most of the times. We have taken traces of jobs and the one thing that is common to all of them is the sheer number of buffer gets from consistent reads. I am pasting statistics from one such job below. This is from a standard Oracle code. The obj# from the raw trace file showed an INVENTORY table that is updated heavily by the application in general. An interesting observation is that this particular job runs fine on days when the inventory table is not heavily updated concurrently by the other jobs, introduced by the new code, that run when this job runs longer. But this behavior is not just limited to this job as there are other critical jobs that have also started to show the same behavior all of a sudden. call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 Execute 7811 8711.44 8501.30 14964 294967869 97122 0 Fetch 7811 0.61 0.61 0 0 0 49048 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 15623 8712.05 8501.92 14964 294967869 97122 49048 Has anyone seen this type of behavior? We are going to open an SR with Oracle to see if we are hitting some type of bug here. Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks Amir -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l