Re: IOPS vs Physica Block Reads statistics

  • From: Ls Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: louis liu <ylouis83@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:34:30 +0200

Hi

Can you try a index range scan in a session (no scatter reads o direct path
reads) and check for your session statistics?

In fact if you look my query output you can see most session have similar
valur for both statistics.


Thanks!


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:29 AM, louis liu <ylouis83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I checked these two statistics and I don't think  physical read total IO
> requests should equal to physical reads in your case
>
>
> 2014-07-28 18:29 GMT+08:00 Ls Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Hi All
>>
>> I am monitoring a Siebel Database and noticed that some sessions have
>> much higher physical read total IO requests than physical reads, it i rare
>> because in Siebel all queries are indexed therefore data are accessed using
>> index range scans, in this case physical read total IO requests should
>> equal to physical reads. In fact it is true for most sessions except a few
>> with long running queries (over 2, 3 hours) which shows this behaviour:
>>
>> select sid, iops, preads, iops - preads diff_iops
>>   from (select sid,
>>                max(case
>>                    when name = 'physical read total IO requests' then
>> value
>>                    else null
>>                end) IOPS,
>>                max(case
>>                    when name = 'physical reads' then value
>>                    else null
>>                end) PREADS
>>           from (select a.sid, name, value
>>                   from v$sesstat a, v$statname b, v$session c
>>                  where a.statistic# = b.statistic#
>>                    and a.sid = c.sid
>>                    and b.name in ('physical read total IO requests',
>> 'physical reads')
>>                    and c.username = 'LDAPUSER'
>>                )
>>         group by sid)
>> where IOPS != PREADS
>> order by 1;
>>
>>
>>    SID       IOPS     PREADS  DIFF_IOPS
>> ------ ---------- ---------- ----------
>>    481      21961      21965         -4
>>    514      16797      16801         -4
>>    542      54678      54719        -41
>>    550       9669       9673         -4
>>    552       2672       2673         -1
>>    561       4945       4949         -4
>>    588      77506      77614       -108
>>    591       7963       7967         -4
>>    595      25758      25783        -25
>>    616       2907       2911         -4
>>    653      13490      13494         -4
>> *   672    1682079    1792498    -110419*
>>    689     208179     208199        -20
>>    711       4132       4136         -4
>>
>> Session 672 has a long running query, around 7200 seconds already.
>>
>> Anyone know what ca cause such behaviour? It is running Siebel 7.8 in
>> Oracle 10.2.0.3 in AIX.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
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