hi,syed jaffar hussain you may do a statspack report . the value in the DB that is= up since december 2003 is not useful. Best regards yahoo id: feng_chunpei A new dba from china ---- from the mail----- >Hi list, > >My database is up since december 2003. However, when I go= through >v$latch, I found the following; > >NAME GETS MISSES SLEEPS >------------------------------ ---------- ---------- >---------- >session allocation 1197361058 152407 7480 >multiblock read objects 1209057328 1532778 41137 >cache buffers lru chain 2791819365 7612195 269427= =3D=3D=3D> >session idle bit 4929270638 87527 3590 >library cache 6719774102 2139530 937599= =3D=3D=3D=3D> >cache buffers chains 7.6325E+10 14700803 934118= =3D=3D=3D=3D> >redo writing 110939333 616464 75353 >messages 161204253 259719 22385 >checkpoint queue latch 352667859 73646 4821 >shared pool 418028301 58660 12236 >row cache objects 458785060 4877123 94779 >redo allocation 468537523 125368 9327 >enqueues 678664061 26255 3184 > > >And when I dig at v$latch_children I found a lot of misses for >NAME GETS MISSES SLEEPS >------------------------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- >library cache 1145632268 500990 289291 >library cache 1864524856 524985 73132 >library cache 2557348906 753180 507015 >library cache 706338241 232889 41144 >library cache 445934611 127500 27031 >cache buffers chains 50657614 8439 492 >cache buffers chains 41067021 6318 427 >cache buffers chains 43140486 7272 474 >cache buffers chains 44849453 6217 450 >cache buffers chains 45883393 5701 407 >cache buffers chains 50139764 6847 556 >cache buffers chains 56838229 9668 625 >cache buffers chains 52779420 10468 653 >cache buffers chains 54897378 6835 466 >cache buffers chains 61131696 12187 560 > >(hell a lot of rows found there for these two) > >How can I solve this problem? Is it very bad for performance= point of >view, having such big values for those latches? > >Best Regards, > >Syed Jaffar Hussain >Sr Oracle DBA >Sejel Technology Ltd. >+966 2 6064971 x 324 4 >----------------------------------------------------------------= >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >----------------------------------------------------------------= >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. >-- >Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ >FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html >----------------------------------------------------------------= - > >. =A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1=A1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------