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What You Can See at Summary View inIBAnalyst

by Dmitry Kuzmenko, 2005-2009

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What You Can See at Summary View in IBAnalyst

Contents

What You Can See at Summary View in IBAnalyst...........................................................3Abstract.....................................................................................................................3Transaction numbers.................................................................................................3Fine statistics with standard settings........................................................................3Many active transactions...........................................................................................4Sweeping...................................................................................................................5When sweep can't do its work...................................................................................6Long running snapshot..............................................................................................7Snapshots again and When ReadCommitted freezes Oldest Snapshot..................7Absolute and relative views.......................................................................................8© IBSurgeon, 2005-20092

What You Can See at Summary View in IBAnalyst

Abstract

This document is devoted to explanation of information at IBAnalyst’s “Summary view”page, and how to interpret this information for your own database statistics. Also we addedseveral examples of statistics to installation package to facilitate you study all InterBasestatistics’ nuts and bolts. They are in Examples directory of IBAnalyst installation.If you don't know what is Oldest transaction, Oldest snapshot, active and Next, pleaseread before Craig Stunz's article "Understanding Transactions Lifetime":http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/articles/UnderstandingTransactionLifetimes.aspx

Transaction numbers

If you have read Understanding Transaction Lifetimes article, maybe you still havequestions about OIT/OST/OAT numbers. Here is short description:

Number Holds, ...Moves forward, ...

Oldesttransactionwhen transaction with this number was rolledback, and there were lot of data changes in it,or when client connection was lostwhen automatic or manualsweep succeeds.OldestSnapshotwhen snapshot (or read committed write prior toIB 7.1) is active for a long time (it rememberedoldest active snapshot as it's local OST)when new transactionstarts, if transactionholding OST is endedOldest Activewhen transaction with this number is active for a long timewhen new transactionstarts, if transactionholding OAT is endedNext never when new transactionstarts note: Oldest transaction here is the same as Oldest Interesting Transaction (OIT),mentioned in lot of another articles.

Fine statistics with standard settings