I/O Megabytes (per second)

Description

The total I/O throughput of the database for both reads and writes in megabytes per second. A very high value indicates that the database is generating a significant volume of I/O data.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Grid Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Target Version

Evaluation and Collection Frequency

Upload Frequency

Operator

Default Warning Threshold

Default Critical Threshold

Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification

Alert Text

11.1.0.x; 11.2.0.x

Not Defined

After Every Sample

>

Not Defined

Not Defined

2

Not Defined

Data Source

v$sysmetric

User Action

A high I/O throughput value is not in itself problematic. However, if high I/O latencies (for example, Synchronous Single-Block Read Latencies) are causing a performance problem, then reducing the total I/O throughput may help. The source of the I/O throughput can be investigated by viewing a breakdown by either Component or Resource Consumer Group.

Related Topics

About Alerts

About the Metric Detail Page

Editing Thresholds

Understanding Line Charts