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AWR-Avg wait(ms) and the right storage platfom

Mohamed HouriJun 29 2012 — edited Jul 1 2012
Dears,

I have just one question to clear relatively to a conclusion I can make or not when reading AWR. Let's take the following Top 5 Timed Events
Top 5 Timed Events                                         Avg %Total
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                        wait   Call
Event                                 Waits    Time (s)   (ms)   Time Wait Class
------------------------------ ------------ ----------- ------ ------ ----------
CPU time                                            356          94.5
CSS initialization                        8          13   1647    3.5      Other
db file sequential READ               2,428           3      1    0.8   User I/O
control file sequential READ          4,547           3      1    0.7 System I/O
log file parallel WRITE                 333           2      6    0.5 System I/O
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When looking to the 1 ms of Avg wait to read a single leaf block (from disk when not in cache), can I conclude that the machine has a very acceptable storage service that services a physical I/O very quickly?

And when looking to the following second example (where I have deliberately exagerated the Avg Wait(ms) times)
Top 5 Timed Foreground Events
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
												Avg
												wait  	  % DB
Event                                 Waits     Time(s)   (ms)   time Wait Class
------------------------------ ------------ ----------- ------ ------ ----------
db file sequential read             465,020       3,969    29  47.4 User I/O
DB CPU                                              995         11.9
db file parallel read                 2,251         322    143  3.8 User I/O
db file scattered read               15,268         153     30  1.8 User I/O
gc current block 2-way              108,739         116      1  
Could I also "jump" to a conclusion that those average wait time for single I/O(29 ms) or multi block reads(30 ms) are serviced by a slow storage service?

Thanks for your help

Mohamed Houri
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