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Performance Slowdown During Heavy Undo Segment Onlining (Doc ID 301432.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 01, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.5 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

Severe database performance slowdown.

Statspack report shows Wait Event "enqueue" with type "US" consuming a significant percentage of database time.

Top 5 Timed Events
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ % Total
Event Waits Time (s) Ela Time
-------------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- --------
enqueue 39,641 70,172 87.61

Enqueue activity for DB: CSP Instance: CSP Snaps: 2716 -2723
-> Enqueue stats gathered prior to 9i should not be compared with 9i data
-> ordered by Wait Time desc, Waits desc

Avg Wt Wait
Eq Requests Succ Gets Failed Gets Waits Time (ms) Time (s)
-- ------------ ------------ ----------- ----------- ------------- ------------
US 2,688 2,620 0 48 1,240,534.88 59,546

Alert.log shows lots of Undo Segments being onlined during this time interval, e.g.

Fri Mar 11 08:39:46 2005
Undo Segment 11 Onlined
Fri Mar 11 08:41:20 2005
Undo Segment 12 Onlined
Fri Mar 11 08:41:20 2005
Undo Segment 13 Onlined
Fri Mar 11 08:41:31 2005
Undo Segment 14 Onlined
Fri Mar 11 08:43:44 2005
Undo Segment 15 Onlined

Changes

Introduction of Automatic Undo Management may have been a recent change in some cases.

Cause

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