July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 32m
English
The most common wait events in the RAC environment related to the global cache are: global cache cr request, global cache busy, and enqueue. We will discuss these wait events in detail and explain how to investigate the problem if excessive wait times are observed with these wait events.
When a process requires one or more blocks, Oracle first checks whether it has those (blocks) in its local cache. The simple hashing algorithm based on the DBA (Data Block Address) is used to traverse the cache buffers chains, and a suitable lock is found if it is in the hash bucket. When a session requests a block(s) that was not found in its local cache, it will request that the resource master grant shared access ...
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