Hi Rich, Rich Jesse schrieb: > In our 11.2.0.3 production DB, I was looking at v$sysstat, and happened to > order the view by VALUE DESC for kicks. The highest number is for the > 'logical read bytes from cache' stat and is currently over 500TB. That > seems abnormally large for less than 2 months of our ~800GB DB, so I thought > I'd see what that boils down to in MB/s: > > It's over 100MB/s, which my knee jerk (emphasis on the latter) tells me that > this seems abnormally high for our li'l DB. > > I'm curious to see how that number compares to other installations, if folks > are willing. This heavily depends on the quality of your execution plans - have a look at SQL "SQL ordered by Buffer Gets" in AWR/Statspack reports. I don't think that number to be abnormally high... CACHE_READ_BYTES CACHE_READ_BYTES_TB STARTUP_TIME UPTIME_DAYS UPTIME_SECONDS BYTES_PER_SEC ---------------- ------------------- --------------------- ----------- -------------- ------------- 2.5E+16 23261681.06 16.12.2012 18:11:49 58.16 5025448 4970112087 The DB is less than 2TB. Regards Martin -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l