Oracle

Oracle Memory Tuning-18

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Memory Tuning

  1. Shared pool (LC, DDC)
  2. Database buffer cache (Default, Keep & Recycle)
  3. Redo buffer cache

Library cache:

To find out the issue we can use the following methods.

V$librarycache , AWR & OEM

V$librarycache Columns:

Namespace – Object Name

Gets – No. of parsing

Gethistratio – Ratio of Phrasing

Pins – No.of execution plan

Pinhistratio – Ratio of execution plan

Reloads – No. of rephrasing

Invalidation – No. of rephrasing for DDL alter table, Column invalidation.

Formula:

Sql> select gethistratio100, pinhitration100 from v$librarycache;

90% – Good

<90% – Problem on LB.

OR

Sql> select [sum(reloads)/sum(pins)] from v$librarycache;

<5% – Good

5% – Problem on LB.

Data Dictionary cache

V$rowcache, AWR, OEM

 

V$rowcache Columns:

Gets – Object definition taken from DDC.

Get misses – Object definition taken from system tablespace, since it could not get it from DDC.

 

Formula:

Sql> select 1-[sum(getmisses)/sum(gets)]*100 from v$rowcache;

<15% – Good

15% – Problem on DDC.

We need to increase the shared pool size.

Increasing shared pool size:

We have an advisory.

Sql> select * from v$shared_pool_advice;

1.0 – Current size and after some value constant one is recommended.

How to minimize the workload on shared pool.

We can configure a reserved area/pinning object area for most frequent query. Non – frequent query will use shared pool.

  1. Pinning object area configuration:

Sql> Shared_pool_reserved_area_size = <size>; – 10% of shared pool size.

Sql> exec dbms_shared_pool.keep(‘payroll_pkg); – Package

We need to get the packages from application team. For remove ‘unkeep’.

  1. Bind Variable

We can give suggestion to developers to use it.

Ex: Sql> select * from emp where eno = 101/102/ … etc It has to phrase and create plan.

We can make it all in one, instead of each statement.

Sql> exec :a=101

Sql> select * from emp where eno=:a;

Sql> exec :a=102

Sql> select * from emp where eno=:a;

 

  1. Cursor options

Open_cursor = <300>. We can change that to 1000.

In OS there is a contextual area/cache memory. So the cursor will go to the OS cache instead of shared pool, if we have good memory on OS side.

Cursor_sharing = exact / similar / force

Exact- Will share more than one SQL query & execution plan

Similar- Will share more than one SQL query

Force- Will share more than one execution plan

Session_cached_cursors = 50;

We can change this to 100. To save a code for sessions.

Cursor_space_for_time = false / True;

“True” – will set zero and will not allow for reloads.

In worst case, Nothing works flush the shared pool.

Sql> alter system flush shared_pool;

10.2.0.4.0 – it has a bug, sometimes it will hang a DB.

 

Database buffer cache

V$sysstat this view will give an information.

Columns:

Physical reads, PR direct, PR direct (lob), session logical read. PR – read data from data file by OS cache.

Formula:

Sql> select 1-[(p.vaue-d.value-l.value)/(s.value)]*100 from v$sysstat p, v$sysstat d, v$sysstat l, v$sysstat s where p.name =’physical reads’ and

d.name =’physical reads direct’ and

l.name =’physical reads direct (lob)’ and

s.name =’session logical reads’;

90 % good and <90% problem.

Solution:

Sql> alter system db_cache_advice = on;

Sql> select * from v$db_cache_advice;

Get the recommended size.

If it still not solved. Configure multiple buffer pool size.

Default –

Keep – Configure most frequently used data here

Parameter: Db_keep_cache_size =<size>

Recycle – Configure bulk data here. 2* default size

Parameter: Db_recycle_cache_size =<2*default>

Sql> alter table emp storage (buffer_pool keep/recycle/default);

Query to find out the tables are stored on keep.

Sql> select * from v$buffer_pool;

Query to find out the issue on keep and recycle

Sql> select 1-[(pr/ (dbblockgets+consistengets))]*100 from v$buffer_pool_statistics;

90% good & <90% problem.

If we have a problem here, we need to move data from DBC to OS cache.

Sql> alter table emp cache;

What are the tables are stored in cache.

Sql> select * from dba_table where cache=’y’;

Sql> alter table emp nocache; — To move back to DBC.

Use always advisory.

 

Redo log buffer cache

V$sysstat, AWR & OEM

V$sysstat columns:

Redo entries – New entry

Redo buffer allocation retries- Total no. of retries.

Redo log space request- The query hit on redo to write data, no space left.

 

Formula:

Sql> select (r.vaue/e.value)*100 from v$sysstat r, v$sysstat e

where r.name =redo buffer allocation retries’ and

e.name =redo entries’;

<1% – good and > 1 % problem

OR

 

Sql> select name, value from v$sysstat

where name =’redo log space request’;

0 – Good and >0 – problem

 

Solution:

Check the current redo log buffer size and increase by 20MB and 20MB so on, Monitor it by adding this, if the issue solves then leave it.

Another solution:

Sql> alter table emp nologging;

Nologging will stop going to redo log file.

Note: In case of disaster we cannot recover the data.

 

PGA Tuning

Workarea_size_policy = auto

Pga_aggregate_target=<size> – PGA size.

Sql> select [(onpass_execution100)/(total_execution)], [(optimal_execution100)/(total_execution)], [(multipass_execution*100)/(total_execution)] From v$sql_wrokarea_history;

We need to run this command more than one time. Like 5, 6 times. On the result if the multipass_execution increasing subsequently, we need to increase the PGA size.

OR

Sql> select * from v$pgastat where name=’cache hit percentage’;

90% good & <90 – problem.

 

Solution: Run PGA advisory

Sql> select * from v$pg_target_advice;

 

Scenario:

Workarea_size_policy = Manual

Sort_area_size=<size> – PGA size.

 

V$sysstat

Sort(disk) – Temporary tablespace sorting

Sort(memory) – PGA sorting

Sort(rows) – no. of rows sorted.

Formula:

Sql> select (d.vaue/m.value)*100 from v$sysstat d, v$sysstat m

where d.name =sort(disk) and

m.name =’sort (memory)’;

<5% – good and > 5 % problem

 

Solution:

Check the sort area size.

Recommended:

Sort_area_size = db_block_size*max_sort_blocks

DB_block_size = 8192

Sql> select max_sort_blocks from v$sort_segement;

OR

Sort_area_retained_size =<size>; The sort are size will move and retained here.

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