Difference In V$OSSTAT xxx_TICKS and xxx_TIME between 10.1 and 10.2 (Doc ID 433937.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 05, 2023

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Goal

V$OSSTAT changed from 10.1 to 10.2.  as following:  

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1 :
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SQL> select stat_name from v$osstat order by 1;

STAT_NAME
------------------------
AVG_BUSY_TICKS
AVG_IDLE_TICKS
AVG_IN_BYTES
AVG_IOWAIT_TICKS
AVG_OUT_BYTES
AVG_SYS_TICKS
AVG_USER_TICKS
BUSY_TICKS
IDLE_TICKS
IN_BYTES
IOWAIT_TICKS
NUM_CPUS
OS_CPU_WAIT_TIME
OUT_BYTES
RSRC_MGR_CPU_WAIT_TIME
SYS_TICKS
USER_TICKS


Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2:
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SQL> select stat_name from v$osstat order by 1;

STAT_NAME
------------------------
AVG_BUSY_TIME
AVG_IDLE_TIME
AVG_IOWAIT_TIME
AVG_SYS_TIME
AVG_USER_TIME
BUSY_TIME
IDLE_TIME
IOWAIT_TIME
LOAD
NUM_CPUS
NUM_CPU_CORES
OS_CPU_WAIT_TIME
PHYSICAL_MEMORY_BYTES
RSRC_MGR_CPU_WAIT_TIME
SYS_TIME
USER_TIME


Need to understand the correlation of _TICKS columns to _TIME columns.

  

Solution

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