End Snap: 113 11-Jun-09 01:00:11 173 7.4
Elapsed: 59.23 (mins)
DB Time: 710.73 (mins)
Check the “DB Time” metric. If it is much higher than the elapsed time, then it indicates that the sessions are waiting for something.
Here in this example, the Elapsed Time is around 60 minutes while the DB Time is around 700 minutes. This means that 700 minutes of time is spent by the sessions on waiting.
2) Next thing to be looked is the following:-
Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%) Buffer Nowait %: 100.00 Redo NoWait %: 100.00 Buffer Hit %: 98.67 In-memory Sort %: 100.00 Library Hit %: 98.60 Soft Parse %: 99.69 Execute to Parse %: 5.26 Latch Hit %: 99.31 Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %: 12.78 %Non-Parse CPU: 99.10 Shared Pool Statistics Begin End Memory Usage %: 85.49 80.93 % SQL with executions>1: 42.46 82.96 % Memory for SQL w/exec>1: 47.77 81.03 The memory usage statistics of shared pool is shown.
Idealy this should be lesser. If it is very high like beyond 90, this shows the contention in the shared pool.
4) Next thing to be looked after is the Top 5 Timed Events table.
This shows the most significant waits contributing to the DB Time.
Top 5 Timed Events Event Waits Time(s) Avg Wait(ms) % Total Call Time Wait Class db file sequential read 4,076,086 28,532 7 66.9 User I/O CPU time 11,214 26.3 Backup: sbtbackup 4 4,398 1,099,452 10.3 Administrative log file sync 37,365 2,421 65 5.7 Commit log file parallel write 37,928 1,371 36 3.2 System I/O Here, the significant wait is the db file sequential read which contributes to 67% of DB Time.
SQL StatisticsSQL ordered by Elapsed Time SQL ordered by CPU Time SQL ordered by Gets SQL ordered by Reads SQL Statistics section would have commonly the above four sections.
Each section shows the list of SQLs based on the order of the respective metric.
For example, SQL ordered by Elapsed Time section shows the list of SQLs in the order
of the Elapsed Time. High resource consuming SQLs can be spotted out and meant for
tuning.
Note: All the above four sections of SQL Statistics show the list of SQLs in descending order.
i.e, For ex: Highest elapsed time is shown as first.
6) Then comes the IO Stats section.
This shows the IO Statistics for each tablespaces in the database.
As the thumb rule, the Av Rd(ms) [Average Reads in milliseconds] should not cross beyond 30, add myself(not greater that 30)
which is considered to be IO bottleneck.
Tablespace IO Statsordered by IOs (Reads + Writes) desc TEMP 3,316,082 933 4.91 1.00 28,840 8 0 0.00
DAT1 520,120 146 16.06 1.21 185,846 52 902 13.00
DAT3 93,411 26 42.82 2.98 13,442 4 16 23.13
DAT2 98,171 28 91.97 7.97 5,333 2 325 34.89
In the above example, the Av Rd(ms) is high in all tablespaces indicating the IO contention.
7) Then , Advisory Statistics can be checked.
This section shows the following:-
Buffer Pool Advisory PGA Aggr Summary PGA Aggr Target Stats PGA Aggr Target Histogram PGA Memory Advisory Shared Pool Advisory SGA Target Advisory Streams Pool Advisory Java Pool Advisory It is very commonly used to check the advisories for the most important SGA structures like shared pool, buffer cache etc and PGA.
8) Then finally, init.ora Parameters is shown which shows the list of parameters set at instance level.
init.ora ParametersAll the above said sections except the DB Time can be checked from Statspack report also.
The statspack snapshots are not generated automatically as in AWR.It has to be generated during the problem period as follows:-
Take 2 snapshots between 60 minutes interval during the problem and generate the statspack report
wait for 60 minutes
exec statspack.snap
Please run $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/spreport.sql
and specify BEGIN and END ID’s of the snapshots taken during the problem.
Some Other Links Will Be Useful :
1-statspack examples.
2-Analyaz statspack.
3-Active Session History.
4-Statspack Article.
5-About Statspack.
6-Using Statspack.
7-AWR Reports
Thank you
Osama mustafa
Technology Geek 
Hello Osama.I have question about 6) Then comes the IO Stats section.Values the Av Rd(ms) are it third column so they under 30.
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Excellent
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nice post..please write another one with some more checks and pattern in AWR
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