Re: Poor Performance of undo space management in 10.2 - bug info

  • From: Mayen.Shah@xxxxxxxxxx
  • To: john.hallas@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:34:59 -0500

John,

Thank you very much for very useful information.

Regards
Mayen Shah






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Poor Performance of undo space management in 10.2  - bug info


This note is a heads-u on a bug which has caused me some problems over the 
last few days and yet is easily identifiable and resolvable (once you 
recognize the issue).
 
 
We have spent the last 2 days trying to run a benchmark to prove end to 
end performance of a new code set. We have been plagued by undo tablespace 
problems which had the following symptons :-
 
Rapid growth of used undo tablespace 
Serious deterioration in performance as the undo tablespace got very full
Loss of application connectivity as responses were not received in time 
(trading system with about 7 servers being used to hold components of the 
system)
 
The complex set up of the test rig tended to mask the database aspect on 
each run and it was only this morning that we really focused on the undo 
tablespace.
 
We had AUM set and a 60 second retention period and various sized t/s 
using both Ramsan and local disk.
 
The problem was identified as undo extents remaining marked as unexpired 
well past the retention period, despite all connections being terminated 
and no active transactions running.
Searching on Metalink showed Note 5387030.1  which refers to a bug with 
the TUNED_UINDORETENTION setting. This can be seen in v$undostat and once 
we had run alter system set "_smu_debug_mode" = 33554432; the 
v$undostat.tuned_undoretention statistic dropped from 345600 to 2188 and 
performance improved with unexpired undo segments hardly rising despite 
heavy throughput.
 
This bug is common through 10.2.01 to 10.2.0.3 or is fixed in 10.2.0.4 or 
V11.
 
John
 
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