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Oracle® Database Reference
10g Release 1 (10.1)

Part Number B10755-01
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V$LATCH

V$LATCH shows aggregate latch statistics for both parent and child latches, grouped by latch name. Individual parent and child latch statistics are broken down in the views V$LATCH_PARENT and V$LATCH_CHILDREN.

Column Datatype Description
ADDR RAW(4 | 8) Address of the latch object
LATCH# NUMBER Latch number
LEVEL# NUMBER Latch level
NAME VARCHAR2(50) Latch name
HASH NUMBER Latch hash
GETS NUMBER Number of times the latch was requested in willing-to-wait mode
MISSES NUMBER Number of times the latch was requested in willing-to-wait mode and the requestor had to wait
SLEEPS NUMBER Number of times a willing-to-wait latch request resulted in a session sleeping while waiting for the latch
IMMEDIATE_GETS NUMBER Number of times a latch was requested in no-wait mode
IMMEDIATE_MISSES NUMBER Number of times a no-wait latch request did not succeed (that is, missed)
WAITERS_WOKEN NUMBER For some latches, the session releasing the latch posts a session waiting for the latch. This counts the number of times a waiting session was awakened.
WAITS_HOLDING_LATCH NUMBER Number of waits for the latch while the waiter was holding a different latch
SPIN_GETS NUMBER Willing-to-wait latch requests which missed the first try but succeeded while spinning
SLEEP[1 | 2 | 3] NUMBER Waits that slept 1 time through 3 times, respectively
SLEEP4 NUMBER Waits that slept 4 or more times
SLEEP[5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11] NUMBER These columns are present for compatibility with previous releases of Oracle. No data is accumulated for these columns.
WAIT_TIME NUMBER Elapsed time spent waiting for the latch (in microseconds)