Wayne,

Have you tried the DROP_SEGMENTS event?  See the
following metalink docs:

Note: 1070504.6 "HOW TO FORCE TEMPORARY SEGMENT
CLEANUP IN ORACLE 8.X.X"

Note: 47400.1 "EVENT: DROP_SEGMENTS - Forcing cleanup
of TEMPORARY segments"

HTH,

-- Anita

--- "Bellefeuille, Wayne S"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is not the TEMP tablespace.  Rather, the
> index rebuild is
> failing on finding "temp segment" space in the
> index's tablespace.  This
> is because SMON doesn't seem to be cleaning the temp
> segments after the
> prior index's rebuild is done, and eventually, the
> rebuild of the
> indexes fails.  However, when I restart the process
> in a few minutes,
> the index that failed before works now, but a
> different index (or
> partition) fails.  This seems to point to SMON not
> working fast enough
> to clean out the temp segments before the next
> index's rebuild starts.
> 
> The "wake smon" script worked great in 8.0 to fix
> this problem, but
> doesn't seem to work (or at least work fast enough)
> in 8i.  
> 
> Is there anything that can be done?
> 
> Wayne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:00 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> Have you tried setting the TEMP tablespaces
> PCTINCREASE value to 1 and
> then
> to 0 again?
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Bellefeuille, Wayne S
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 13:15
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> This is the one I am running.  It just doesn't seem
> to be doing the
> trick in 8i, where it worked fine for 8.0.  Is that
> possible?  Or do I
> need to look elsewhere for my temp segment problem?
> 
> Wayne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:05 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> Steve Adams has a script, but I don't know if it
> works 8i
> 
> http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/sql/post_smon.sql
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:56 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> Back in 8.0 days, we were running into space
> problems for temp segments
> while rebuilding indexes on our large partitioned
> tables.  Someone on
> this list suggested that we use the "wake SMON"
> approach, which
> essentially running the following command from
> svrmgrl:  noradebug
> wakeup <smon_pid>.
> 
> This worked great.  However, now that we have moved
> to 8i, we have
> started getting the temp segments space problem
> again.  That is, this
> command doesn't seem to be doing its job anymore.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Wayne Bellefeuille



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