Skip to Main Content

Oracle Database Discussions

Announcement

For appeals, questions and feedback about Oracle Forums, please email oracle-forums-moderators_us@oracle.com. Technical questions should be asked in the appropriate category. Thank you!

DB CPU and "db file sequencial read" waits in AWR

rahulrasJun 1 2012 — edited Jun 4 2012
Hi All,

Oracle v11.1.0.7.
I am aware that there are many threads on AWR report, but still I am putting my questions in this thread.
Host Name        Platform                         CPUs Cores Sockets Memory(GB)
---------------- -------------------------------- ---- ----- ------- ----------
aaaaaa3484.aaaaa Linux x86 64-bit                    8     8       2      31.31
(host name is masked, please ignore)
My questions are around this section. The AWR report is generated for a period of 5 hours of overnight processing
Top 5 Timed Foreground Events
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                                           Avg
                                                          wait   % DB
Event                                 Waits     Time(s)   (ms)   time Wait Class
------------------------------ ------------ ----------- ------ ------ ----------
db file sequential read           5,403,573      22,744      4   40.7 User I/O
DB CPU                                           16,612          29.7
db file parallel read               318,379       4,597     14    8.2 User I/O
log file sync                       338,502       3,232     10    5.8 Commit
direct path write temp              402,351       3,053      8    5.5 User I/O
When DB CPU shows number 29.7, how can I interpret it? Is it 29.7% of total CPU time?
what is total CPU time? Is it 5hours X 8 CPUs?

Does that CPU wait means, in these 5 hours, 29.7% of time, Oracle was waiting for CPU to be allocated to Oracle's processes?
to me that means, 29.7% of time Oracle was not doing anything or I am missing something?

I know "db file sequential read" are the I/O wait when doing indexed read. Are the "db file sequential read" caused only by speed (or slowness) of the I/O system? "I/O system" and storage, are they the same thing (I guess not)??

Thanks in advance
Comments
Locked Post
New comments cannot be posted to this locked post.
Post Details
Locked on Jul 2 2012
Added on Jun 1 2012
7 comments
3,104 views