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12.2 or later STATSPACK: Idle Wait Event Such as 'Data Guard: Timer' is Erroneously Included in Top 5 Timed Events (Doc ID 2437142.1)

Last updated on MARCH 03, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Exadata Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.2.0.1 to 23.7 [Release 12.2 to 23]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

The newly added idle wait events is erroneously included in the "Top 5 Timed Events" section in 12.2 or later:

Top 5 Timed Events                                                         Avg %Total
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                        wait   Call
Event                                            Waits    Time (s)        (ms)   Time
----------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- ----------- ------
Data Guard: Timer                                    8       4,800  600,000.97   33.3 <<== Idle event
pman timer                                       1,548       4,644    2,999.89   32.2 <<== Idle event
Data Guard: Gap Manager                             77       4,620   60,000.57   32.0 <<== Idle event
log file sync                                   38,168         250        6.55    1.7
CPU time                                                        56                 .4

Cause

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