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Consistent Changes per Consistent Gets (ConsChgRatio)


The ConsChgRatio parameter reports consistent changes as a percentage of consistent gets. A consistent change occurs each time that an action is required by the Oracle instance to bring a block subject to a consistent get back to its target read consistency point.

These operations require navigation of rollback segment entry chains and can be highly consumptive of both CPU and disk I/O. Also, these operations may require the allocation of an extra block buffer in which to store the read consistent version of the block.
This parameter uses the following formula:

prf_consistent_changes

prf_consistent_gets

This is the percentage of consistent gets that are consistent changes, or in other words, or a block was modified but not committed. Another user issued a read on that block and must see the original data, so this user issues a consistent get. If the original data is still in memory, we are done. If not, Oracle must bring back the data and this act is called a consistent change.

Recommendations

Consider enabling multi-block writes.
 A large ConsChgRatio implies either there are a lot of long running transactions or there aren't enough DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS.

Thresholds for alarms and warnings

Item

Default threshold

State

Border range

0-0

OK

Alarm1 range

5-100

WARN

Alarm2 range

0-0

OK

BMC PATROL properties

Attribute

Default value

Application class

ORACLE_PERFORMANCE

Command type

Not applicable

Platform

All

Icon style

Graph

Unit

Percentage of consistent gets

Border range

Undefined

Alarm1 range

5-100 WARN

Alarm2 range

Undefined

Scheduling(poll time)

Poll time of collector

Active at installation

Yes

Parameter type

Consumer

Value set by

CollPerformance

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management properties

Property

Default value

Monitor type

Oracle Database Performance

Key Performance Indicator

No

Monitor for abnormalities

Yes

Graph by default

No

Availability

No

Response time

No

Normal distribution

Yes

Statistical

Yes

 

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