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Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning
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Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning

by Richmond Shee, Kirtikumar Deshpande, K Gopalakrishnan
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 32m
English
McGraw Hill Computing
Content preview from Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning

The OWI Philosophy

The OWI is a performance tracking methodology that focuses on process bottlenecks, which are better known as “wait events” and lesser known as symptoms. This includes waits for I/O operations, locks, latches, background processes activities, network latencies, and so on. OWI records and presents all the bottlenecks that a process encounters from start to finish. It keeps track of the number of times and the amount of time a process spent on each bottleneck. Removing or even reducing the impact of major bottlenecks improves performance. For example, if you are to improve your travel time to work, you must first identify the major time-consuming elements on your route such as traffic lights, stop signs, school zones, traffic ...

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