Oracle 11g offers some stats data to calculate IOPS and MBPS for ARCH process. However, I am not sure how accurate those database stas could be. As commened in metalink note [1275596.1], " Datafile writes are not as easy to measure as reads" and I assume what ARCH process does is purely 'writes' Most of the time the ARCH destination is independent volume or mount point, I perfer iostats straight from either OS level or Storage level (or both). It is just a question where to measure at different IO stack layers: Storage <--> OS <---> Database V$IOSTAT_FUNCTION , FUNCTION_NAME = 'ARCH' AWR report section IOStat by Filetype summary IOStat by Function/Filetype summary AWR tables in DBA_HIST_IOSTAT_FILETYPE, DBA_HIST_IOSTAT_DETAIL DBspeed sample Snap_id End_Snap_time Inst# Filetype_name Read_IOPS Read_MBPS Avg_small_read_time_ms Avg_large_read_time_ms Write_IOPS Write_MBPS ------- -------------------- ---- ------------- -------- -------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ---------- ---------- 4-5 2012-03-19 01:00:27 1 Archive Log 0 0 0 0 0.73 0.73 5-6 2012-03-19 02:00:53 1 Archive Log 0 0 0 0 1.11 1.1 6-7 2012-03-19 03:00:13 1 Archive Log 0 0 0 0 0.72 0.72 Lei >From: Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx >Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 4:01 PM >Subject: Re: IO statistics of the ARCH process >>Snapper can show it as arch processes have sessions (and populate >V$SESSION) like most other background processes... > >*Tanel Poder* >Enkitec Europe >+372 56 956 181 >http://www.enkitec.com/ >Expert Oracle Exadata book: >http://www.apress.com/9781430233923 > >On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Folks, > Is there a statistic that can be used to estimate how much IO/sec the > ARCH process is doing when archiving redo log files? I was planning to > use "Log archive I/O" event but the description of this event states > that: > > "When the archiving process exhausts its I/O buffers because all of them > are being used for on-going I/O's, the wait for an available I/O buffer > is captured in this system wait event." > > > > Thank you > > Amir > > DBspeed http://dbspeed.com/case_study.html -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l