Trace File Question: WAIT_TIME = what? Seconds? Centiseconds?

  • From: <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:40:06 -0500

Just a quick question, in a trace file sample below, what is the wait_time 
measured in?  Clearly it's not seconds unless I have a serious problem...
(I tried finding the answer on Metalink but searching for this specific 
question is hard to get the results I needed)


    SO: 0x18347e0de8, type: 4, owner: 0x183ede9958, flag: INIT/-/-/0x00
    (session) sid: 5321 trans: 0x17f4e15ce0, creator: 0x183ede9958, flag: 
(40000045) USR/- BSY/-/-/-/-/-
              DID: 0001-008A-000005EE, short-term DID: 0000-0000-00000000
              txn branch: (nil)
              oct: 189, prv: 0, sql: 0x16ee592400, psql: 0x16c4dd9240, user: 
92/CONCUITY
    service name: xxxxx
    O/S info: user: xxxxx, term: unknown, ospid: , machine: xxxxxxx
              program: xxxx
    application name: xxxxx, hash value%46894660
    waiting for 'enq: TM - contention' blocking sess=0x(nil) seq8 wait_time=0 
seconds since wait started16
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
    Dumping Session Wait History
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_time24204
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9265
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9258
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9273
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9262
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9264
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9265
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9258
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9276
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
     for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9255
                name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0
    temporary object counter: 0

Chris Taylor
Oracle DBA
Parallon IT&S


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