I suppose what I'm trying to say here is that if the same wait event is issued regardless of a physical or logical io request, how can I determine if the io subsystem is returning blocks at s reasonable service time. Assuming an idle system other than the report, would times under 5ms be cache hits and times over be physical. Further anything over 10ms would be a bad service time ? appreciate any input on this Thanks On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:31 SGT Oracle Dba Wannabe wrote: >Hi, >So I have an idle system, where I run a sql report. The report takes an hour >to run. I look at the awr report (30 min interval), and see the io wait events >for sequential and scattered reads. The first has an avg wait time of 7ms the >second 10ms. These waits as I understand it are physical io requests - >correct? The p1 and p2 parameters point to file and block numbers so I guess >that makes sense. Anyway I rerun the same report, look at the new awr and now >see the same wait events, only with much smaller wait times. Which means data >was read from cache - if that's the case why are the same wait events issued? >it seems a bit confusing that way. >Thanks > > > > >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l