Performance Tuning :: Increasing Buffer Cache Value

Considering the below factors, I am planning to increase the buffer cache value from 256Mb to 512Mb.

1. Buffer cache hit ratio value is around 35% even in the normal period.
2. free buffer requested value is below during peak & normal hours below.

Statistic Total per Second per Trans
--------------------------------- ------------------ -------------- ------------
free buffer requested 54,694,995 15,226.9 2,523.7
free buffer requested 23,412,674 6,501.7 2,585.9

3. most of the top 5 physical reads & logical reads queries are well tuned and some of queries are doing FTS on small tables (table count min 1500 max 35000). SO indexing option is not required for these queires. But these queries getting executed frequently.

SQL> show sga

Total System Global Area 2148534928 bytes
Fixed Size 731792 bytes
Variable Size 1879048192 bytes
Database Buffers 268435456 bytes
Redo Buffers 319488 bytes

5.top 5 waitevents during db slow performance & high cpu utilization (>80%) issue.

Top 5 Timed Events
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ % Total
Event Waits Time (s) Ela Time
-------------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- --------
latch free 1,848,898 153,793 52.00
buffer busy waits 395,280 87,201 29.49
db file scattered read 3,488,648 34,199 11.56
enqueue 4,052 10,897 3.68
CPU time 5,567 1.88

6. Top 5 waitvents during normal activities and CPU utilization is around 40%.

Top 5 Timed Events
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ % Total
Event Waits Time (s) Ela Time
-------------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- --------
CPU time 1,860 45.32
db file scattered read 1,133,669 985 23.99
imm op 776 605 14.73
sbtinfo2 208 139 3.40
sbtbackup 2 123 3.00