I/O waits hurting anyone?

  • From: "McPeak, Matt" <vxsmimmcp@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:24:17 +0000

I have a process that executes a lot.  Over 6 days it's executed 1.3 million 
times.  The elapsed time per call averages 0.8 seconds, and the I/O wait time 
per call averages 0.7 seconds.

In other words, it spends most of its time waiting.

I'll look into all that... my question is more general: am I right in saying 
that the I/O waits don't load the system in any way and don't hurt any 
processes besides the one that is waiting?

Thanks in advance!

Matt

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