Oracle9i中一个特殊等待事件--null event

null event不是空事件，不是没有等待事件,而是Oracle忘记了刚才等待的事件的名字是什么了，但保留了该事件的真实情况。Oracle 的开发人员直到9.2.0.3才更新了这些事件名称。
那是不是我们每当遇到性能问题的时候都要patch到9.2.0.3呢？
我们已经知道他的真实情况依然在v$session_wait的P1、P2、P3参数里体现，所以，我们可以从这些参数顺藤摸瓜，找出这个null event 到底是什么等待事件。

下面是ITPUB上COPY过来的一些信息：
1. LCK processes to pick up extra or missed @#posts@# (messages).
In all cases that can be identified the wait time is zero,
although on most ports this is changed to 1/100th second in
order to force the process to be rescheduled.

2. Multiple DB writers.

Two cases:

- When the master has sent i/o requests to the slaves, it
waits on this event for up to 6 seconds until the slaves
signal that the i/o is complete.

- The slaves wait on this event for up to 3 seconds whilst
waiting for requests from the master db writer.
目前已经被证实的会涉及到null event 的等待事件还有有SQL*Net message to client、 db file scattered (or sequential) read

待续

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