The HW enqueue is used to serialize the allocation of space above the high-water mark in an object.
This lock is acquired when a segment's high-water mark is moved, which typically is the case during heavy inserts.
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 |
pre-10g |
Every Minute |
After Every Sample |
> |
20 |
Not Defined |
3 |
%value%%% of service time is spent waiting on the 'enqueue: HW, Segment High Water Mark - contention' event. |
(DeltaEnqueueHWTime/DeltaServiceTime)*100 where:
DeltaEnqueueHWTime: difference of 'sum of time waited for sessions of foreground processes on the 'enqueue: Segment High Water Mark - contention' event' between sample end and start
DeltaServiceTime: difference of 'sum of time waited for sessions of foreground processes on events not in IdleEvents + sum of 'CPU used when call started' for sessions of foreground processes' between sample end and start
See Idle Events
Use Locally Managed Tablespaces.
For version dictionary managed tablespaces:
Recreate the objects and preallocate extents with the following: ALTER TABLE...ALLOCATE EXTENT statements.
Increasing the number of free lists may help, as well as moving the high-water mark. This depends on the number of freelists.
Related Topics
About Alerts
About the Metric Detail Page
Editing Thresholds
Understanding Line Charts
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