Oracle Performance Firefighting
by Craig Shallahamer

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While the straight average for the IO read wait times is not shown in the figure, it is calculated as follows:

However, the scattered read wait time of 0.093 ms occurs much more frequently than the other waits. A more accurate average calculation would take into account the occurrences of the scattered read waits in addition to its average event wait time. This is called a weighted average, and it is a much better average calculation when working with diverse and highly variant data sets, as we have here.

The average calculation, weighted by the total wait time (which includes the weight occurrences) is shown in Figure 9-21. It is calculated as follows:

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