eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by Disk Cache Hit Miss Test

This test monitors hit and miss rates occurring within the disk cache.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Hits Indicates the number of requests serviced by the disk cache during the last measurement period. Number A high value is desired for this measure.
Misses Indicates the number of requests that were not serviced by the disk cache during the last measurement period. Number A low value is desired for this measure.
Hit ratio Indicates the percentage of requests that were serviced by the disk cache. Percent A high ratio of hits is ideal. A very low ratio indicates that a majority of requests have been served by direct disk accesses only. This has an adverse impact on the overall health of the database server.