Re: Low CPU time, no Wait time but high elapsed time

  • From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 21:54:43 +0200

I am not sure how LPAR works but 1 second per DML and no I/O waits is really
strange, I cannot find any reasoning except what Toon stated

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:39 PM, <rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> I did not think LPAR was managed in a similar manner like a VM. ****
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> My understanding was that in a LPAR the resources are hard bound when the
> LPAR gets created ****
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> You can move them around later but still this is not the same as a
> hypervisor.****
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> Once moved the resources stay with the new LPAR – but I am not sure. Maybe
> the newer LPARs are hypervised.****
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *LS Cheng
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> *To:* Toon Koppelaars
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> *Subject:* Re: Low CPU time, no Wait time but high elapsed time****
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> aha so this might mean the box was saturated and the LPAR couldnt get CPU
> fast enough?
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> Thanks
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Toon Koppelaars <
> toon.koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:****
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> That could explain it. I have had experiences where a trace-file of a slow
> session did not record any waittime with similar observation like yours.
> This was due to the fact that the 'slow session' was running inside a VM
> that did not get a lot of cpu-cycles allocated from the VM manager.****
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:45 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:****
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> The catalog database runs in side an IBM P780 Logical Partition (LPAR)
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> Thanks****
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Toon Koppelaars <
> toon.koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:****
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> Is this a virtualized environment?****
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:38 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:****
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> Hi
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> The other day while I was troubleshooting with 10046 some RMAN resync
> issues with the catalog (was taking very long time) I noticed that insert
> and update statements were taking extremely long time, one second per
> execution more or less. The 10046 trace for the RMAN catalog database
> session showed cpu time 10000 microseconds, no waits and elapsed around
> 1200000 microseconds. This is 10.2.0.5 running on AIX.
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> I did some research and couldnt find any good reason.
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> Anyone come across with this sort of issue?
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> Thanks!
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