The one way is always tracing. I beleive Cary explained every case in his book. But nor sure that you want to read or parse every line of your 10046 trace. I will always opt to pay a few bucks to some parser on the net. But, not sure that it is not possible to be covered differently with timed_os_statistics parameter that is giving you at least some OS timing statistics from v$ views. Is that reliable? Did anybody was playing with this apart from me? Any bad (wrong) behaviour with using OS statistics with timed_os_statistics? If not reliable in 9i is it in 10g? Anybody? Are we refusing Oracle OS statistics here as non reliable or I missed some article/paper/doc (very possible if you imagine how huge is Oracle community)? At the end turning timed_os_statistics for some session or the db is probably not crazy overhead, or at least not bigger then level 8 tracing. Regards, Zoran --- Cary Millsap <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I disagree that this advice is difficult to > implement in practice, = > because I > implement it in practice frequently. Optimizing > Oracle Performance = > pp170-173 > illustrates a very simple case that applies nicely > to much more = > complicated > Oracle cases. Ironically, I helped diagnose another > real-life case of = > this > type just 15 minutes ago. > > The Oracle c statistic includes both the utime and > stime components of = > the > getrusage return value. (You can *prove* that by > intercepting your = > getrusage > calls and manipulating their return data.) > Therefore, the "e" time = > that's > not accounted for by any "c" (usr mode CPU plus sys > mode CPU consumed by = > the > Oracle kernel) time or "ela" time (mostly time spent > asleep awaiting a > syscall return) is going to be a reasonably reliable > measure (+/-10%) of > time spent preempted. > > What helps my confidence significantly is that over > and over again, I = > see > that unaccounted-for time computed in the manner > I've described reliably > measures the amount of time that a process spends > preempted. > > It works. Really. > =20 > > Cary Millsap > Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. > http://www.hotsos.com > * Nullius in verba * > > Upcoming events: > - Performance Diagnosis 101: 1/4 Calgary > - SQL Optimization 101: 12/13 Atlanta > - Hotsos Symposium 2005: March 6-10 Dallas > - Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule details... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Gogala, Mladen > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:19 AM > To: 'cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx'; > oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: cpu average load > > This was a very precise and correct answer, but > unfortunately rather = > hard to > Implement in practice. Process preemption or context > switching, as it is > sometimes called, happens while CPU is in kernel > mode. Kernel mode is > normally spent only on 2 major things:=20 > 1) context switching > 2) paging > CPU being in kernel mode means that OS it taking > care of its own health = > and > Happiness and not working on the user request. > Commands like ps -lp = > <PID> or > top will give you precise amount of kernel mode > spent by your process. = > If > that amount is significant, it warrants further > investigation by using = > truss > or strace. BTW, whenever a system service is > requested, a context change > happens. It includes things like read, write, stat > and alike. The = > mechanism=20 > for calling system services is based on "switch mode > to kernel" trap. = > System > service number is the 1st argument for the trap > handler. > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Ext. 121 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cary Millsap > [mailto:cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx]=20 > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:59 AM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: cpu average load > > The amount of response time that process preemptions > are costing your > performance is measured as the amount of response > time in an extended = > SQL > trace file that is not accounted for by the sum of > your file's c values = > at > recursive depth zero, plus the sum of your file's > ela values. > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l