Wait events - how to read it

Question

Hi frnds,
As, I'm beginner to performance tuning I dont know
What action do i need to take?
I mean how to read the output which I given below.
this is the output suffering buffer busy waits.
Could anyone please tell me
CLASS TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIME
data block 93303 58711
unused 0 0
system undo header 12 232
undo header 7847 6636
3rd level bmb 0 0
save undo header 0 0
bitmap index block 0 0
file header block 0 0
free list 0 0
undo block 68 207
segment header 422 399
extent map 0 0
2nd level bmb 0 0
system undo block 0 0
sort block 0 0
save undo block 0 0
1st level bmb 1 17
bitmap block 0 0
Thanks, Muhammed Thameem. S

Answer 1

Hello,
"Buffer busy waits" is contention for a buffer (representing a specific
version of a database block) within the Buffer Cache. So, in essence
it is block contention and thus it is most likely something to do with
the design of the tables and indexes supporting the application. A
built-in bottleneck. On indexes, it could be the age-old problem of
insertions into an index on a column with a monotonically-ascending
data value (i.e. timestamps or sequence numbers) which tends to cause
contention on the highest leaf node of the index. On tables, it might
have to do with many concurrent insertions into a table in a
freelist-managed tablespace where the table has only one freelist. It
could also be due to a home-grown implementation of sequence-number
generators (i.e. small table with one row, one column in which contains
the "last value" of a sequence, etc) which lots of people use to avoid
not being "portable across databases" which they think means not using
Oracle sequences (yadda yadda yadda).
I'd look for any SQL statement in the "SQL sorted by Elapsed Time"
section of the AWR report which exhibits high elapsed time but
relatively low CPU time, indicating a lot of wait time. Of course,
there are something like 800 possible wait events in current releases
of Oracle, of which "buffer busy waits" is only one, so this is just
inference and not a direct causal connection to your problem. But,
once I find such statements I'd check to see if they are
accessing/manipulating tables within the CUBS_DATA tablespace, and then
use "select * from table(dbms_xplan.display_awr('sql-id'))" to
get the execution plan(s), and then look for something ineffective
within the execution plan. You might find the script "sqlhistory.sql" helpful
here as well, to get a "historical perspective" on the execution of the
SQL statements over time, in case the buffer busy waits peaked at some
point in the past
Please refer to:
http://www.pubbs.net/201003/oracle/51925-understanding-awr-buffer-waits.html
Also
http://www.remote-dba.net/oracle_10g_tuning/t_buffer_busy_waits.htm
kind regards
Mohamed