Workload Write vs. Read Ratio

  • From: Steven Andrew <postora@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:16:51 -0800

All,
I have this little thing nagging me for a while and would like to get
opionion from others. For capacity planning excercies, we generally
monitor the metric 'physical read total IO requests' and 'physical write
total IO requests' over a period of time to get IOPS. I see that Read
requests to be around 200 and Write request around 2000. Does this mean the
application workload is write intensive with write vs. read ratio of 90:10.
What about all the caching that's done at the SGA for reads, likewise SAN
caching for write. Shouldn't that be accounted as well when it comes to
knowing the workload pattern of the application. How would you go about in
knowing the workload ratio for an existing system.

TIA,
Andrew.


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