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.