Log File Sync等待超高案例浅析
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监控工具DPA(SolarWinds的Database Performance Analyzer)发现海外一台Oracle数据库服务器DB Commit Time指标告警，超过红色告警线(40毫秒左右，黄色告警线是10毫秒，红色告警线是20毫秒)，如下截图所示，生成了对应时段的AWR报告，分析时发现Top 5 Timed Events里面，log file sync等待事件的平均等待时间为37毫秒，log file parallel write等待事件的平均等待时间为40毫秒
如果对’Tanel Poder：:Understanding LGWR, Log File Sync Waits and Commit Performance’这篇文章所讲述的内容很熟悉的话(经典图如下)，那么通过等待事件log file sync与log file parallel write的Avg Wait(ms)指标：37ms & 40ms,基本上就可以判断redo log所在的磁盘I/O出现了性能问题
然后在用lfsdiag.sql脚本分析一下详细的统计数据，如下所示：
HISTOGRAM DATA FOR LFS AND OTHER RELATED WAITS: APPROACH: Look at the wait distribution for log file sync waits by looking at "wait_time_milli". Look at the high wait times then see if you can correlate those with other related wait events. INST_ID EVENT WAIT_TIME_MILLI WAIT_COUNT ---------- ---------------------------------------- --------------- ---------- 1 log file sync 1 4363 1 log file sync 2 835 1 log file sync 4 1650 1 log file sync 8 4937 1 log file sync 16 146252 1 log file sync 32 606674 1 log file sync 64 263377 1 log file sync 128 253254 1 log file sync 256 2 1 log file switch completion 1 124 1 log file switch completion 2 9 1 log file switch completion 4 19 1 log file switch completion 8 21 1 log file switch completion 16 35 1 log file switch completion 32 97 1 log file switch completion 64 133 1 log file switch completion 128 326 1 log file switch completion 256 1736 1 log file switch completion 512 3042 1 log file switch completion 1024 2020 1 log file parallel write 1 0 1 log file parallel write 2 0 1 log file parallel write 4 80 1 log file parallel write 8 2142 1 log file parallel write 16 170987 1 log file parallel write 32 779205 1 log file parallel write 64 311463 1 log file parallel write 128 79688 1 log file parallel write 256 42763 1 log file parallel write 512 13052 1 log file parallel write 1024 20468 1 log file parallel write 2048 14020 1 log file parallel write 4096 921 1 log file parallel write 8192 96 1 log file parallel write 16384 18 1 log file parallel write 32768 18 1 log file parallel write 65536 8 1 log file parallel write 131072 2 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 1 8516 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 2 20 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 4 19 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 8 20 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 16 11 ORDERED BY WAIT_TIME_MILLI INST_ID EVENT WAIT_TIME_MILLI WAIT_COUNT ---------- ---------------------------------------- --------------- ---------- 1 log file sync 1 4363 1 log file switch completion 1 124 1 log file parallel write 1 0 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 1 8516 1 log file sync 2 835 1 log file switch completion 2 9 1 log file parallel write 2 0 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 2 20 1 log file sync 4 1650 1 log file switch completion 4 19 1 log file parallel write 4 80 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 4 19 1 log file sync 8 4937 1 log file switch completion 8 21 1 log file parallel write 8 2142 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 8 20 1 log file sync 16 146252 1 log file switch completion 16 35 1 log file parallel write 16 170987 1 LGWR wait for redo copy 16 11 1 log file sync 32 606674 1 log file switch completion 32 97 1 log file parallel write 32 779205 1 log file sync 64 263377 1 log file switch completion 64 133 1 log file parallel write 64 311463 1 log file sync 128 253254 1 log file switch completion 128 326 1 log file parallel write 128 79688 1 log file sync 256 2 1 log file switch completion 256 1736 1 log file parallel write 256 42763 1 log file switch completion 512 3042 1 log file parallel write 512 13052 1 log file switch completion 1024 2020 1 log file parallel write 1024 20468 1 log file parallel write 2048 14020 1 log file parallel write 4096 921 1 log file parallel write 8192 96 1 log file parallel write 16384 18 1 log file parallel write 32768 18 1 log file parallel write 65536 8 1 log file parallel write 131072 2 REDO WRITE STATS "redo write time" in centiseconds (100 per second) 11.1: "redo write broadcast ack time" in centiseconds (100 per second) 11.2: "redo write broadcast ack time" in microseconds (1000 per millisecond) VERSION INST_ID NAME VALUE MILLISECONDS ----------------- ---------- ---------------------------------------- --------------------- ------------------- 10.2.0.5.0 1 redo write time 9551524 95515240.000 10.2.0.5.0 1 redo writer latching time 51 10.2.0.5.0 1 redo writes 1434931 AWR WORST AVG LOG FILE SYNC SNAPS:
从上面数据可以看到，log file sync等待事件数量最多的是32ms这个区间的，log file parallel write等待事件发生最多的也是32ms这个区间的，其实这个值已经远远超过了正常值7ms，极其不正常。log file parallel write事件是LGWR进程专属的等待事件，发生在LGWR将log_buffer中的重做日志信息写入联机重做日志文件组的成员文件，LGWR在该事件上等待该写入过程的完成。该事件等待时间过长，说明日志文件所在磁盘缓慢或存在争用。log file sync和log file parallel write是相互关联的。换句话讲，假设log file parallel write的时间非常长，那么必定导致log file sync等待时间拉长。如果log file parallel write 等待非常高，那么可能一般是物理磁盘I/O的问题
另外，我们也检查了一下redo log的切换频率，如下所示，redolog_sitch_time.sql查看发现redo log切换的次数并不频繁，生成的归档日志的量也并不大。大部分时候一小时切换零次或一次。
然后我们找了一台服务器(上述指标正常的服务器)简单对测试了一下IO的速度，这个方法极其简单，就是看看生成一个大文件需要多长时间，简单测试一下I/O性能(没有考虑cache等，测试采样也不详尽)，但是对比数据也基本能验证、反馈磁盘IO存在问题)。
问题服务器：
# time dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=512k count=2048 oflag=direct 2048+0 records in 2048+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 88.271 seconds, 12.2 MB/s real 1m28.273s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.655s
对比服务器(正常的服务器)：
# time dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=512k count=2048 oflag=direct 2048+0 records in 2048+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.48344 seconds, 432 MB/s real 0m2.485s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.386s
如上对比所示，两台服务器生成同样一个大小文件，耗费的时间，I/O性能差别非常大，完全验证了告警的服务器所在的存储I/O存在性能问题，但是公司分工非常明确，DBA也不清楚底层存储出了什么问题，只能将这个问题反馈出来，等待海外负责维护系统和存储的同事的回复。
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