Checkpoint vs. log file switch

Hi..
Does Oracle flush all dirty buffers at log file switch or just a part of dirty buffers?
Doc says Full checkpoint occurs only by commands (Shutdonw or checkpoint command). I guess the meaning of this is that log file switch doen's flush all dirty buffers..I want to get some more infomaton on this.
Thanks

Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for participating in the OTN topics.
At any full checkpoint (log switch or command) DBWR
is triggered to walk the checkpoint queue and write
all the blocks that are currently on it - i.e. all
the currently dirty blocks. Obviously this can take
some time, but the task has a known completion point
because of the queue structure.Once I've red interesting article published on Oracle Magazine RE two years ago.
Author states (and there is no reason to distrust him) that after log switch so called low priority normal checkpoint takes place in contrast to incremental checkpoint when DBWR will perform actual writes to disk. It is not necessarily for DBWR to start checkpoint writes at the log switch immediately.
I played a bit experimenting with log switch, global checkpoint etc making many DML at the same time to supply DBWR with dirty blocks but algorith used by Oracle is not clear at all.
I observed that ckpt_block_writes in the v$instance_recovery view is not increasing after log switch but instead it increments occasionally (by incremental checkpoint starting I suppose).
Can you please put some comments about this.
Your opinion is really valuable.
>
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
Best Regards,
Alex
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    DB Name         DB Id    Instance     Inst Num Release     Cluster Host
    DB             378381468 DB                  1 9.2.0.7.0   NO      host
                Snap Id     Snap Time      Sessions Curs/Sess Comment
    Begin Snap:      12 28-Jun-07 11:05:11       26   1,198.7
      End Snap:      13 28-Jun-07 12:05:24       29   1,077.2
       Elapsed:               60.22 (mins)
    Cache Sizes (end)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                   Buffer Cache:       512M      Std Block Size:         8K
               Shared Pool Size:       512M          Log Buffer:     5,120K
    Load Profile
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~                            Per Second       Per Transaction
                      Redo size:            281,252.38              2,073.48
                  Logical reads:             73,113.76                539.02
                  Block changes:              3,133.29                 23.10
                 Physical reads:                  3.24                  0.02
                Physical writes:                 21.39                  0.16
                     User calls:                 26.12                  0.19
                         Parses:                145.64                  1.07
                    Hard parses:                  0.81                  0.01
                          Sorts:                138.33                  1.02
                         Logons:                  0.69                  0.01
                       Executes:                443.27                  3.27
                   Transactions:                135.64
      % Blocks changed per Read:    4.29    Recursive Call %:    98.97
    Rollback per transaction %:    0.13       Rows per Sort:    17.26
    Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                Buffer Nowait %:   99.99       Redo NoWait %:  100.00
                Buffer  Hit   %:  100.00    In-memory Sort %:   99.99
                Library Hit   %:   99.66        Soft Parse %:   99.44
             Execute to Parse %:   67.14         Latch Hit %:   99.93
    Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %:   55.03     % Non-Parse CPU:   99.22
    Shared Pool Statistics        Begin   End
                 Memory Usage %:   91.06   91.23
        % SQL with executions>1:   44.54   39.78
      % Memory for SQL w/exec>1:   43.09   33.89
    Top 5 Timed Events
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                     % Total
    Event                                               Waits    Time (s) Ela Time
    CPU time                                                        3,577    84.73
    log file parallel write                           854,726         359     8.51
    row cache lock                                     56,780         104     2.47
    process startup                                       172          91     2.16
    SQL*Net message from dblink                         5,001          22      .53
    Wait Events for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    -> s  - second
    -> cs - centisecond -     100th of a second
    -> ms - millisecond -    1000th of a second
    -> us - microsecond - 1000000th of a second
    -> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc (idle events last)
                                                                       Avg
                                                         Total Wait   wait    Waits
    Event                               Waits   Timeouts   Time (s)   (ms)     /txn
    log file parallel write           854,726          0        359      0      1.7
    row cache lock                     56,780          0        104      2      0.1
    process startup                       172          4         91    530      0.0
    SQL*Net message from dblink         5,001          0         22      4      0.0
    log file sync                       3,015          3         19      6      0.0
    enqueue                               471          1          9     20      0.0
    buffer busy waits                  20,290          0          8      0      0.0
    db file sequential read             3,853          0          6      2      0.0
    SQL*Net more data from dblin       88,584          0          5      0      0.2
    control file parallel write         1,704          0          5      3      0.0
    latch free                          1,404        748          4      3      0.0
    single-task message                   134          0          4     27      0.0
    LGWR wait for redo copy             8,230          1          2      0      0.0
    log file switch completion             60          0          2     32      0.0
    log file sequential read            1,333          0          2      1      0.0
    control file sequential read        4,530          0          1      0      0.0
    db file scattered read                246          0          0      1      0.0
    SQL*Net more data to client         7,292          0          0      0      0.0
    SQL*Net break/reset to clien           72          0          0      1      0.0
    db file parallel write              4,568          0          0      0      0.0
    log file single write                  62          0          0      0      0.0
    async disk IO                       3,410          0          0      0      0.0
    SQL*Net message to dblink           5,001          0          0      0      0.0
    direct path read (lob)                 84          0          0      0      0.0
    direct path read                      318          0          0      0      0.0
    direct path write                     312          0          0      0      0.0
    buffer deadlock                       115        115          0      0      0.0
    SQL*Net message from client        86,475          0     27,758    321      0.2
    jobq slave wait                     4,594      4,532     13,455   2929      0.0
    SQL*Net more data from clien          602          0          1      2      0.0
    SQL*Net message to client          86,481          0          0      0      0.2
    Background Wait Events for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    -> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc (idle events last)
                                                                       Avg
                                                         Total Wait   wait    Waits
    Event                               Waits   Timeouts   Time (s)   (ms)     /txn
    log file parallel write           854,744          0        359      0      1.7
    control file parallel write         1,704          0          5      3      0.0
    LGWR wait for redo copy             8,230          1          2      0      0.0
    log file sequential read            1,333          0          2      1      0.0
    control file sequential read        1,849          0          1      1      0.0
    db file parallel write              4,567          0          0      0      0.0
    latch free                             74          0          0      0      0.0
    rdbms ipc reply                        65          0          0      0      0.0
    log file single write                  62          0          0      0      0.0
    async disk IO                       3,410          0          0      0      0.0
    db file sequential read                 1          0          0      8      0.0
    buffer busy waits                       5          0          0      0      0.0
    direct path read                      248          0          0      0      0.0
    direct path write                     248          0          0      0      0.0
    rdbms ipc message                 868,357      6,776     30,095     35      1.8
    pmon timer                          1,204      1,204      3,529   2931      0.0
    smon timer                            154          0      3,514  22816      0.0
    Instance Activity Stats for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    Statistic                                      Total     per Second    per Trans
    active txn count during cleanout               2,844            0.8          0.0
    background checkpoints completed                  31            0.0          0.0
    background checkpoints started                    31            0.0          0.0
    background timeouts                            7,956            2.2          0.0
    branch node splits                                15            0.0          0.0
    buffer is not pinned count               324,721,116       89,875.8        662.6
    buffer is pinned count                   308,901,876       85,497.3        630.3
    bytes received via SQL*Net from c          8,048,130        2,227.6         16.4
    bytes received via SQL*Net from d        181,575,342       50,256.1        370.5
    bytes sent via SQL*Net to client          33,964,494        9,400.6         69.3
    bytes sent via SQL*Net to dblink             933,170          258.3          1.9
    calls to get snapshot scn: kcmgss          9,900,434        2,740.2         20.2
    calls to kcmgas                              985,222          272.7          2.0
    calls to kcmgcs                               11,669            3.2          0.0
    change write time                              9,910            2.7          0.0
    cleanout - number of ktugct calls             18,903            5.2          0.0
    cleanouts and rollbacks - consist                 33            0.0          0.0
    cleanouts only - consistent read                 932            0.3          0.0
    cluster key scan block gets                  289,955           80.3          0.6
    cluster key scans                            101,840           28.2          0.2
    commit cleanout failures: block l                  0            0.0          0.0
    commit cleanout failures: buffer                 113            0.0          0.0
    commit cleanout failures: callbac                 96            0.0          0.0
    commit cleanout failures: cannot               3,095            0.9          0.0
    commit cleanouts                           1,966,376          544.3          4.0
    commit cleanouts successfully com          1,963,072          543.3          4.0
    commit txn count during cleanout             309,283           85.6          0.6
    consistent changes                         5,245,452        1,451.8         10.7
    consistent gets                          242,967,989       67,248.3        495.8
    consistent gets - examination            135,768,580       37,577.8        277.0
    CPU used by this session                     357,659           99.0          0.7
    CPU used when call started                   344,951           95.5          0.7
    CR blocks created                                768            0.2          0.0
    current blocks converted for CR                    0            0.0          0.0
    cursor authentications                           886            0.3          0.0
    data blocks consistent reads - un              1,760            0.5          0.0
    db block changes                          11,320,580        3,133.3         23.1
    db block gets                             21,192,200        5,865.5         43.2
    DBWR buffers scanned                               0            0.0          0.0
    DBWR checkpoint buffers written               69,649           19.3          0.1
    DBWR checkpoints                                  31            0.0          0.0
    DBWR free buffers found                            0            0.0          0.0
    DBWR lru scans                                     0            0.0          0.0
    DBWR make free requests                            0            0.0          0.0
    DBWR revisited being-written buff                  0            0.0          0.0
    DBWR summed scan depth                             0            0.0          0.0
    DBWR transaction table writes                  2,070            0.6          0.0
    DBWR undo block writes                        44,323           12.3          0.1
    deferred (CURRENT) block cleanout            745,333          206.3          1.5
    dirty buffers inspected                            1            0.0          0.0
    enqueue conversions                            8,193            2.3          0.0
    enqueue deadlocks                                  1            0.0          0.0
    enqueue releases                           2,002,960          554.4          4.1
    enqueue requests                           2,002,963          554.4          4.1
    enqueue timeouts                                   3            0.0          0.0
    enqueue waits                                    451            0.1          0.0
    Instance Activity Stats for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    Statistic                                      Total     per Second    per Trans
    exchange deadlocks                               115            0.0          0.0
    execute count                              1,601,528          443.3          3.3
    free buffer inspected                             30            0.0          0.0
    free buffer requested                      1,196,628          331.2          2.4
    hot buffers moved to head of LRU              26,707            7.4          0.1
    immediate (CR) block cleanout app                965            0.3          0.0
    immediate (CURRENT) block cleanou             10,817            3.0          0.0
    index fast full scans (full)                       0            0.0          0.0
    index fetch by key                       131,028,270       36,265.8        267.4
    index scans kdiixs1                       17,868,907        4,945.7         36.5
    leaf node splits                               4,528            1.3          0.0
    leaf node 90-10 splits                         3,017            0.8          0.0
    logons cumulative                              2,499            0.7          0.0
    messages received                            859,631          237.9          1.8
    messages sent                                859,631          237.9          1.8
    no buffer to keep pinned count                21,253            5.9          0.0
    no work - consistent read gets            87,667,752       24,264.5        178.9
    opened cursors cumulative                    528,984          146.4          1.1
    OS Involuntary context switches                    0            0.0          0.0
    OS Page faults                                     0            0.0          0.0
    OS Page reclaims                                   0            0.0          0.0
    OS System time used                                0            0.0          0.0
    OS User time used                                  0            0.0          0.0
    OS Voluntary context switches                      0            0.0          0.0
    parse count (failures)                             7            0.0          0.0
    parse count (hard)                             2,928            0.8          0.0
    parse count (total)                          526,209          145.6          1.1
    parse time cpu                                 2,778            0.8          0.0
    parse time elapsed                             5,048            1.4          0.0
    physical reads                                11,690            3.2          0.0
    physical reads direct                          6,698            1.9          0.0
    physical reads direct (lob)                      102            0.0          0.0
    physical writes                               77,270           21.4          0.2
    physical writes direct                         7,620            2.1          0.0
    physical writes direct (lob)                       0            0.0          0.0
    physical writes non checkpoint                33,360            9.2          0.1
    pinned buffers inspected                           0            0.0          0.0
    prefetched blocks                                799            0.2          0.0
    prefetched blocks aged out before                  0            0.0          0.0
    process last non-idle time                     3,630            1.0          0.0
    recursive calls                            9,053,277        2,505.8         18.5
    recursive cpu usage                          255,973           70.9          0.5
    redo blocks written                        2,572,625          712.1          5.3
    redo buffer allocation retries                    50            0.0          0.0
    redo entries                               3,074,994          851.1          6.3
    redo log space requests                           60            0.0          0.0
    redo log space wait time                         193            0.1          0.0
    redo ordering marks                                0            0.0          0.0
    redo size                              1,016,164,852      281,252.4      2,073.5
    redo synch time                                1,956            0.5          0.0
    redo synch writes                              5,317            1.5          0.0
    redo wastage                             259,689,040       71,876.3        529.9
    redo write time                               37,488           10.4          0.1
    redo writer latching time                        242            0.1          0.0
    redo writes                                  854,744          236.6          1.7
    rollback changes - undo records a              1,098            0.3          0.0
    Instance Activity Stats for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    Statistic                                      Total     per Second    per Trans
    rollbacks only - consistent read                 747            0.2          0.0
    rows fetched via callback                117,908,375       32,634.5        240.6
    session connect time                               0            0.0          0.0
    session cursor cache count                        16            0.0          0.0
    session cursor cache hits                    484,372          134.1          1.0
    session logical reads                    264,160,020       73,113.8        539.0
    session pga memory                        16,473,320        4,559.5         33.6
    session pga memory max                    16,914,080        4,681.5         34.5
    session uga memory                    17,216,514,728    4,765,157.7     35,130.3
    session uga memory max                 1,865,036,296      516,201.6      3,805.6
    shared hash latch upgrades - no w         17,251,803        4,774.9         35.2
    shared hash latch upgrades - wait             24,671            6.8          0.1
    sorts (disk)                                      32            0.0          0.0
    sorts (memory)                               499,747          138.3          1.0
    sorts (rows)                               8,626,333        2,387.6         17.6
    SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client             80,069           22.2          0.2
    SQL*Net roundtrips to/from dblink              5,001            1.4          0.0
    summed dirty queue length                          0            0.0          0.0
    switch current to new buffer                       1            0.0          0.0
    table fetch by rowid                     238,882,317       66,117.4        487.4
    table fetch continued row                  4,436,670        1,228.0          9.1
    table scan blocks gotten                   5,066,302        1,402.2         10.3
    table scan rows gotten                   134,679,712       37,276.4        274.8
    table scans (direct read)                          0            0.0          0.0
    table scans (long tables)                        447            0.1          0.0
    table scans (short tables)                   152,382           42.2          0.3
    transaction rollbacks                            530            0.2          0.0
    transaction tables consistent rea                  0            0.0          0.0
    transaction tables consistent rea                  0            0.0          0.0
    user calls                                    94,382           26.1          0.2
    user commits                                 489,423          135.5          1.0
    user rollbacks                                   653            0.2          0.0
    write clones created in backgroun                 11            0.0          0.0
    write clones created in foregroun                878            0.2          0.0
    Tablespace IO Stats for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    ->ordered by IOs (Reads + Writes) desc
    Tablespace
                     Av      Av     Av                    Av        Buffer Av Buf
             Reads Reads/s Rd(ms) Blks/Rd       Writes Writes/s      Waits Wt(ms)
    T1_UNDO
                31       0    0.0     1.0       46,535       13        344    0.4
    T1       
                31       0    0.0     1.0       13,754        4      3,657    0.4
    T2     
             3,308       1    0.8     1.1        2,973        1          0    0.0
    T3       
                31       0    0.0     1.0        5,710        2     16,240    0.4
    T4     
               555       0    4.0     1.0          600        0          0    0.0
    SYSTEM
               429       0    3.9     2.5          280        0         49    0.2
    TEMP
               134       0    0.4    48.1          238        0          0    0.0
    T1_16K          
                31       0    0.0     1.0           31        0          0    0.0
    T2_16K     
                31       0    0.0     1.0           31        0          0    0.0
    Buffer Pool Statistics for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    -> Standard block size Pools  D: default,  K: keep,  R: recycle
    -> Default Pools for other block sizes: 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k
                                                               Free    Write  Buffer
         Number of Cache      Buffer    Physical   Physical  Buffer Complete    Busy
    P      Buffers Hit %        Gets       Reads     Writes   Waits    Waits   Waits
    D       49,625 100.0 263,975,320       4,909     69,666       0        0  20,290
    16k      7,056 100.0          30           0          0       0        0       0
    Instance Recovery Stats for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    -> B: Begin snapshot,  E: End snapshot
      Targt Estd                                    Log File   Log Ckpt   Log Ckpt
      MTTR  MTTR   Recovery    Actual     Target      Size     Timeout    Interval
       (s)   (s)   Estd IOs  Redo Blks  Redo Blks  Redo Blks  Redo Blks  Redo Blks
    B     0     0                 10518      10000      73728     186265      10000
    E     0     0                 13189      10000      73728     219498      10000
    Buffer Pool Advisory for DB: DB  Instance: DB  End Snap: 13
    -> Only rows with estimated physical reads >0 are displayed
    -> ordered by Block Size, Buffers For Estimate
            Size for  Size      Buffers for  Est Physical          Estimated
    P   Estimate (M) Factr         Estimate   Read Factor     Physical Reads
    D             32    .1            3,970        205.60      4,726,309,734
    D             64    .2            7,940        111.86      2,571,419,284
    D             96    .2           11,910         59.99      1,379,092,849
    D            128    .3           15,880         32.24        741,224,090
    D            160    .4           19,850         16.05        369,050,333
    D            192    .5           23,820          1.28         29,352,221
    D            224    .6           27,790          1.05         24,077,507
    D            256    .6           31,760          1.03         23,723,389
    D            288    .7           35,730          1.02         23,518,434
    D            320    .8           39,700          1.01         23,328,106
    D            352    .9           43,670          1.01         23,193,257
    D            384   1.0           47,640          1.00         23,064,957
    D            400   1.0           49,625          1.00         22,987,576
    D            416   1.0           51,610          1.00         22,927,325
    D            448   1.1           55,580          0.99         22,824,032
    D            480   1.2           59,550          0.99         22,713,509
    D            512   1.3           63,520          0.99         22,649,147
    D            544   1.4           67,490          0.98         22,605,489
    D            576   1.4           71,460          0.98         22,525,897
    D            608   1.5           75,430          0.97         22,407,418
    D            640   1.6           79,400          0.96         22,022,381
    16k           16    .1            1,008          1.00        139,218,299
    16k           32    .3            2,016          1.00        139,211,699
    16k           48    .4            3,024          1.00        139,207,678
    16k           64    .6            4,032          1.00        139,202,581
    16k           80    .7            5,040          1.00        139,198,339
    16k           96    .9            6,048          1.00        139,193,448
    16k          112   1.0            7,056          1.00        139,188,446
    16k          128   1.1            8,064          1.00        139,183,808
    16k          144   1.3            9,072          1.00        139,179,598
    16k          160   1.4           10,080          1.00        139,175,656
    16k          176   1.6           11,088          1.00        139,170,607
    16k          192   1.7           12,096          1.00        139,166,491
    16k          208   1.9           13,104          1.00        139,162,487
    16k          224   2.0           14,112          1.00        139,158,197
    16k          240   2.1           15,120          1.00        139,153,797
    16k          256   2.3           16,128          1.00        139,149,365
    16k          272   2.4           17,136          1.00        139,144,252
    16k          288   2.6           18,144          1.00        139,140,121
    16k          304   2.7           19,152          1.00        139,135,435
    16k          320   2.9           20,160          1.00        139,130,845
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    -> ordered by wait time desc, waits desc
                                     Tot Wait    Avg
    Class                    Waits   Time (s) Time (ms)
    data block              19,912          8         0
    undo header                343          0         0
    segment header              34          0         0
    undo block                   1          0         0
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                                                            Avg Wt         Wait
    Eq     Requests    Succ Gets Failed Gets       Waits   Time (ms)     Time (s)
    TM      981,781      981,773           0           7      1,365.43           10
    TX      983,944      983,906           0         412           .59            0
    HW        4,645        4,645           0          32           .09            0
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            Trans Table       Pct   Undo Bytes
    RBS No      Gets        Waits     Written        Wraps  Shrinks  Extends
         0          155.0    0.00               0        0        0        0
         1      202,561.0    0.00      31,178,710       40        2        3
         2      191,044.0    0.00      30,067,156       23        2        6
         3      195,891.0    0.00      30,470,548       39        1        3
         4      203,928.0    0.00      31,822,638       38        2        5
         5      196,386.0    0.00  -4,264,350,168       38        1        3
         6      204,125.0    0.00      32,081,200       24        1        7
         7      192,169.0    0.00      33,732,012       45        3        6
         8      195,819.0    0.00      30,503,550       40        2        2
         9      202,905.0    0.00      31,595,438       40        2        4
        10      195,796.0    0.00      30,566,652       29        4        9
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         0         385,024               0                         385,024
         1      12,705,792         944,176                   2,213,732,352
         2      11,657,216       1,548,937                   2,214,715,392
         3      13,754,368         832,465                     243,392,512
         4      13,754,368         946,902                     235,069,440
         5      12,705,792         964,352                   2,195,374,080
         6      20,045,824       1,232,438                   2,416,041,984
         7      12,705,792         977,490                   3,822,182,400
         8      10,608,640         875,068                     243,392,512
         9      11,657,216         878,119                     243,392,512
        10      18,997,248       1,034,104                   2,281,889,792
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    -> Undo segment block stats:
    -> uS - unexpired Stolen,   uR - unexpired Released,   uU - unexpired reUsed
    -> eS - expired   Stolen,   eR - expired   Released,   eU - expired   reUsed
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    TS#         Blocks      Trans  Len (s)   Concurcy  Too Old  Space eS/eR/eU
       1         44,441 ##########       47          2        0      0 0/0/0/0/0/0
    Undo Segment Stats for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    -> ordered by Time desc
                         Undo      Num Max Qry   Max Tx  Snap   Out of uS/uR/uU/
    End Time           Blocks    Trans Len (s)    Concy Too Old  Space eS/eR/eU
    28-Jun 11:56        7,111 ########      47        1       0      0 0/0/0/0/0/0
    28-Jun 11:46       10,782 ########      18        2       0      0 0/0/0/0/0/0
    28-Jun 11:36        6,170 ########      42        1       0      0 0/0/0/0/0/0
    28-Jun 11:26        4,966 ########      13        1       0      0 0/0/0/0/0/0
    28-Jun 11:16        6,602 ########      40        1       0      0 0/0/0/0/0/0
    28-Jun 11:06        8,810 ########      10        1       0      0 0/0/0/0/0/0
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    ->"Get Requests", "Pct Get Miss" and "Avg Slps/Miss" are statistics for
      willing-to-wait latch get requests
    ->"NoWait Requests", "Pct NoWait Miss" are for no-wait latch get requests
    ->"Pct Misses" for both should be very close to 0.0
                                               Pct    Avg   Wait                 Pct
                                  Get          Get   Slps   Time       NoWait NoWait
    Latch                       Requests      Miss  /Miss    (s)     Requests   Miss
    active checkpoint queue           9,585    0.0    0.0      0            0
    alert log latch                     158    0.0             0            0
    archive control                     220    0.0             0            0
    archive process latch               220    0.5    1.0      0            0
    cache buffer handles            264,718    0.0    0.0      0            0
    cache buffers chains        416,051,175    0.0    0.0      4      401,018    0.0
    cache buffers lru chain       1,285,963    0.0    0.0      0    1,206,550    0.0
    channel handle pool latc          4,927    0.0             0            0
    channel operations paren         10,788    0.0             0            0
    checkpoint queue latch          528,319    0.0    0.0      0       69,506    0.0
    child cursor hash table          35,371    0.0             0            0
    Consistent RBA                  854,833    0.0    0.0      0            0
    dml lock allocation           1,963,007    0.9    0.0      0            0
    dummy allocation                  4,995    0.0             0            0
    enqueue hash chains           4,014,593    0.5    0.0      0            0
    enqueues                         94,666    0.0    0.0      0            0
    event group latch                 2,340    0.0             0            0
    FAL request queue                    72    0.0             0            0
    FIB s.o chain latch                 310    0.0             0            0
    FOB s.o list latch                6,769    0.0             0            0
    global tx hash mapping           10,388    0.0             0            0
    hash table column usage              16    0.0             0          479    0.0
    job workq parent latch                0                    0          316    0.0
    job_queue_processes para            116    0.0             0            0
    ktm global data                     200    0.0             0            0
    lgwr LWN SCN                    855,008    0.0    0.0      0            0
    library cache                 5,836,900    0.4    0.0      0        8,926    0.6
    library cache load lock             468    0.0             0            0
    library cache pin             3,510,695    0.0    0.0      0            0
    library cache pin alloca      1,402,523    0.0    0.0      0            0
    list of block allocation          6,115    0.0             0            0
    loader state object free            620    0.0             0            0
    message pool operations             262    0.0             0            0
    messages                      2,664,950    0.4    0.0      0            0
    mostly latch-free SCN           856,000    0.1    0.0      0            0
    multiblock read objects           3,184    0.0             0            0
    ncodef allocation latch              57    0.0             0            0
    object stats modificatio              8    0.0             0            0
    post/wait queue                   6,183    0.0             0        3,082    0.0
    process allocation                4,677    0.0             0        2,340    0.0
    process group creation            4,677    0.0             0            0
    redo allocation               4,784,936    0.5    0.0      0            0
    redo copy                             0                    0    3,081,261    0.3
    redo writing                  2,576,299    0.0    0.2      0            0
    row cache enqueue latch       3,017,144    0.0    0.0      0            0
    row cache objects             5,049,552    0.8    0.0      0           92    0.0
    sequence cache                  984,824    0.0    0.1      0            0
    session allocation              110,417    0.0    0.0      0            0
    session idle bit                205,319    0.0             0            0
    session switching                    57    0.0             0            0
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    ->"Get Requests", "Pct Get Miss" and "Avg Slps/Miss" are statistics for
      willing-to-wait latch get requests
    ->"NoWait Requests", "Pct NoWait Miss" are for no-wait latch get requests
    ->"Pct Misses" for both should be very close to 0.0
                                               Pct    Avg   Wait                 Pct
                                  Get          Get   Slps   Time       NoWait NoWait
    Latch                       Requests      Miss  /Miss    (s)     Requests   Miss
    session timer                     1,204    0.0             0            0
    shared pool                   2,409,725    0.1    0.1      0            0
    simulator hash latch          7,439,429    0.0    0.0      0            0
    simulator lru latch                 202    0.0             0      128,961    0.2
    sort extent pool                  1,053    0.0             0            0
    SQL memory manager worka             67    0.0             0            0
    temp lob duration state             187    0.0             0            0
    transaction allocation            7,290    0.0             0            0
    transaction branch alloc          5,668    0.0             0            0
    undo global data              3,002,808    0.4    0.0      0            0
    user lock                         8,642    0.0             0            0
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    -> ordered by misses desc
                                          Get                            Spin &
    Latch Name                       Requests      Misses      Sleeps Sleeps 1->4
    cache buffers chains          416,051,175     197,296         750 196776/298/2
                                                                      15/7/0
    row cache objects               5,049,552      42,368          38 42330/38/0/0
                                                                      /0
    redo allocation                 4,784,936      24,766          77 24697/61/8/0
                                                                      /0
    library cache                   5,836,900      23,477         276 23207/264/6/
                                                                      0/0
    enqueue hash chains             4,014,593      21,061          26 21035/26/0/0
                                                                      /0
    dml lock allocation             1,963,007      17,887          16 17872/14/1/0
                                                                      /0
    undo global data                3,002,808      12,350           8 12342/8/0/0/
                                                                      0
    messages                        2,664,950      10,131           5 10126/5/0/0/
                                                                      0
    shared pool                     2,409,725       1,362         189 1175/185/2/0
                                                                      /0
    row cache enqueue latch         3,017,144         470           7 463/7/0/0/0
    mostly latch-free SCN             856,000         434           1 433/1/0/0/0
    library cache pin               3,510,695         345           4 341/4/0/0/0
    sequence cache                    984,824          53           4 49/4/0/0/0
    library cache pin allocati      1,402,523          35           1 34/1/0/0/0
    redo writing                    2,576,299           5           1 4/1/0/0/0
    archive process latch                 220           1           1 0/1/0/0/0
    Latch Miss Sources for DB: DB  Instance: DB  Snaps: 12 -13
    -> only latches with sleeps are shown
    -> ordered by name, sleeps desc
                                                         NoWait              Waiter
    Latch Name               Where                       Misses     Sleeps   Sleeps
    archive process latch    kcrrpa                           0          1        0
    cache buffers chains     kcbgtcr: fast path               0        346      188
    cache buffers chains     kcbgtcr: kslbegin excl           0        163      239
    cache buffers chains     kcbrls: kslbegin                 0         86      170
    cache buffers chains     kcbget: pin buffer               0         53       49
    cache buffers chains     kcbgcur: kslbegin                0         44       20
    cache buffers chains     kcbnlc                           0         38       22
    cache buffers chains     kcbget: exchange                 0          8       16
    cache buffers chains     kcbchg: kslbegin: call CR        0          3       21
    cache buffers chains     kcbget: exchange rls             0          3        2
    cache buffers chains     kcbnew                           0          3        0
    cache buffers chains     kcbbxsv                          0          2        0
    cache buffers chains     kcbchg: kslbegin: bufs not       0          1       23
    dml lock allocation      ktaiam                           0         13        1
    dml lock allocation      ktaidm                           0          3       15
    enqueue hash chains      ksqgtl3                          0         22        2
    enqueue hash chains      ksqrcl                           0          4       24
    library cache            kglic                            0         55        4
    library cache            kglhdgn: child:                  0         42       86
    library cache            kglobpn: child:                  0         26       32
    library cache            kglpndl: child: after proc       0         14        0
    library cache            kglpndl: child: before pro       0         13       73
    library cache            kglpin: child: heap proces       0         12       29
    library cache            kgllkdl: child: cleanup          0         11        4
    library cache            kglupc: child                    0          4        7
    library cache            kgldti: 2child                   0          2        4
    library cache            kglpnp: child                    0          1        4
    library cache pin        kglpnal: child: alloc spac       0          3        3
    library cache pin        kglpndl                          0          1        1
    library cache pin alloca kglpnal                          0          1        0
    messages                 ksaamb: after wakeup             0          3        2
    messages                 ksarcv                           0          2        2
    mostly latch-free SCN    kcslcu3                          0          1        1
    redo allocation          kcrfwr                           0         74        8
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