The Memory Structures Layer

A transaction lock is acquired when a transaction initiates its first change and is held until the transaction does a COMMIT or ROLLBACK. It is used mainly as a queuing mechanism so that other sessions can wait for the transaction to complete.

The test mapped to this layer reports the following:

  • the number and duration of transaction locks held by each instance of the cluster;

  • the health of the memory and redo buffer structures;

  • the root blocker processes etc

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Figure 1 : The tests mapped to the Memory Structures layer