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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, krishna.

Asked: May 04, 2017 - 11:17 am UTC

Last updated: May 06, 2017 - 2:21 am UTC

Version: 11.2.0.4

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Hi,

In our prod database we could see more buffer busy wait events on query "insert on sys.aud$" table?

Can you explain why buffer busy wait occurred on sys.aud$ table and how to avoid ?

and Connor said...

That would suggest you perhaps have lots of auditing going on, hence getting contention for the AUD$ table.

Check the contents of:

DBA_OBJ_AUDIT_OPTS
DBA_PRIV_AUDIT_OPTS
DBA_STMT_AUDIT_OPTS

and see if you have any excessive auditing going on.

If you do need all the options set, then perhaps consider seeing if AUD$ is not in a ASSM tablespace, and moving to one (eg SYSAUX) if that is the case.

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