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Oracle Internals: An Introduction
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Oracle Internals: An Introduction

by Steve Adams
October 1999
Intermediate to advanced
136 pages
4h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Reference

This section contains a quick reference to the parameters, events, statistics, waits, and APT scripts mentioned in Chapter 4.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

_DISTRIBUTED_LOCK_TIMEOUT

Timeout for assumed deadlocks on distributed transactions. Defaults to 60 seconds.

_ENQUEUE_HASH

The size of the enqueue hash table.

_ENQUEUE_HASH_CHAIN_LATCHES

The number of latches used for access to the enqueue hash table. Defaults to the CPU count.

_ENQUEUE_LOCKS

The number of enqueue lock structures.

DML_LOCKS

The size of the DML locks fixed array. Where possible, DML locking should be disabled to reduce locking overheads and the risk of blocking locks.

ENQUEUE_RESOURCES

The size of the enqueue resources array.

PARALLEL_TRANSACTION_RESOURCE_TIMEOUT

Timeout for assumed deadlocks between the branches of a parallel transaction and another transaction in release 8.0.

TEMPORARY_TABLE_LOCKS

This parameter is obsolete in Oracle8. It does still exist in release 8.0, but setting it has no effect.

Events

Event

Description

60

This is the enqueue deadlock detection error. In cases of recurrent, mysterious deadlock problems, you may need to take a systemstate dump on this event to diagnose the interactions causing the deadlocks.

370

This event is signaled for assumed buffer cache deadlocks, and can be used for investigating severe buffer locking contention, using processstate dumps.

4020

This is the library cache deadlock detection error. With a systemstate dump on this event, ...

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