thanks for your help. I want to drill a little deeper. 1. v$latch and v$latch_parent seem to be identical? What am I missing? 2. I don't quite understand the level# field? level of what? > > From: K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2004/03/23 Tue AM 07:57:34 EST > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: RE: difference between child and parent latches? > > Ryan: > > My understanding is whenever/whereever, > > a)single latch is not sufficiant to protect the entire data structure > b)the contention for that particular latch is severe and the structure > can be logically split in to multiple data structures > > multiple latches are implemented and grouped as parent-child > relationships. > > So to answer your question, both are essentially same, but the child > latches are created during instance startup (parents are defined in the > code) and the number of children can be controlled by some underscore > parameters. > > Hope this answers your question ! if not Ask Steve Adams > > Regards, > Gopal > > > > --- ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx wrote: > > i'm still having trouble understanding what the real difference is > > between a parent latch and a child latch? > > > > > > From: K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: 2004/03/23 Tue AM 04:28:38 EST > > > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: RE: difference between child and parent latches? > > > > > > Paul: > > > > > > You will have only one latch if your shared pool is less than 250 > > MB. > > > But the v$latch_children may (probably) have 7 entries, but only > > one > > > latch will be protecting the shared pool structures. This can be > > > verified by checking the misses/sleeps for that particular child. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Gopal > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------