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Throughput - Skew Monitor

Purpose

This view presents data useful in assessing skew in access patterns.  When a query accesses more data on some members than on others, the more heavily loaded members become bottlenecks, making the whole query take longer.

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Histograms and Summaries (Gauges)

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Metrics Shown in Grid

Member


CPU Time

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.total_cpu_time


Logical Reads/s

Logical reads is a better measure of access patterns than rows read because it includes index accesses.


Logical Temp Reads/s

pool_temp_data_l_reads + pool_temp_index_l_reads + pool_temp_xda_l_reads + pool_temp_col_l_reads


Rows Read/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.rows_read


Rows Modified/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.rows_modified


TQ Recvs/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.fcm_tq_recvs_total


TQ Sends/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.fcm_tq_sends_total


TQ Spills/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.tq_tot_send_spills


Overflows/s

sort_overflows + hash_join_overflows + olap_func_overflows + hash_grpby_overflows


FCM Volume (KB/s)

(fcm_recv_volume + fcm_send_volume) / 1024.0


FCM Buffers Sent/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.fcm_sends_total


FCM Buffers Recvd/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.fcm_recvs_total


Activities Completed/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.act_completed_total


Requests/s

Source: mon_get_service_subclass.rqsts_completed_total


In-flight Activities

Source:

select count(*) from table(wlm_get_workload_occurrence_activities(null,member))

Default Sort Column

Member, ascending

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