Oracle Performance Firefighting
by Craig Shallahamer

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The AWR Instance Statistics section showed the physical read IO requests (breads for short) statistic to be 148,439. Before we calculate the service and queue times, the arrival rate based on our unit of work needs to be calculated. Here is the arrival rate math:

Based on Figure 9-14, the total service time is 2,091.82 seconds, or 2,091,820 milliseconds. Determine the service time by dividing the total service time by the unit of work value. Here is the service time math:

Determine the queue time by dividing the total queue time by the unit of work value. While the detailed wait event listing is not shown, even by looking at the top four wait events shown in Figure 9-15, we can infer these account for 90% or more of all the non-idle wait time. For the necessary level of precision, I simply added the wait times for the top four wait events. Their combined wait time is 1,867 seconds during the sample interval. Here is the queue time math:

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