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Reference : PROMON Utility : R&D Activity Displays : Page Writers
 
Page Writers
Displays information about asynchronous page writer (APW) activity.

PROMON Page Writers Activity display

The following shows a sample Page Writers Activity display.
09/26/03             Activity: Page Writers
16:29                from 09/25/03 13:56 to 09/26/03 11:23 (21 hrs 27 min)
                                    Total   Per Min   Per Sec    Per Tx

Total DB writes                     3       0         0.00       0.00
APW DB writes                       0       0         0.00       0.00
    scan writes                     8       25        0.42       0.00
    APW queue writes                2       6         0.10       0.00
    ckp queue writes                0       0         0.00       0.00
    scan cycles                     0       0         0.00       0.00
    buffers scanned                 0       0         0.00       0.00
    bufs checkpointed               173     0         0.11       0.14
Checkpoints                         8211    0         5.22       6.79
Marked at checkpoint                0       0         0.00       0.00
Flushed at checkpoint               0       0         0.00       0.00

Number of APWs:                      1
The display lists the following types of APW operations:
*Total DB writes — The total number of database write operations performed by all processes.
*APW DB writes — The number of database write operations performed by the APW. This is a subset of the total number of DB writes:
*Scan writes — The number of buffers written during the scan cycle.
*APW queue writes — The number of buffers written to clear the APW queue.
*Ckp queue writes — The number of buffers written from the checkpoint queue.
*Scan cycles — The number of scan cycles. During a scan cycle, the APW scans a portion of the buffer pool to look for modified buffers.
*Buffers scanned — The number of buffers scanned during each cycle.
*Bufs checkpointed — The number of buffers checkpointed.
*Checkpoints — The number of checkpoints that have occurred.
*Marked at checkpoint — The number of buffers that were scheduled to be written before the end of the checkpoint.
*Flushed at checkpoint — The number of blocks that were not written during the checkpoint and had to be written all at once at the end of the checkpoint.
*Number of APWs — The number of APWs running.