I usually try to leave 25 - 50% of the SYSTEM tablespace empty, I read about that somewhere.
That was before Oracle introduced locally managed tablespaces, maybe it's not a valid target anymore. Probably I am just paranoid, though. : ) Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des syst�mes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | R�gion des Maritimes, MPO E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Overhead of over sized datafiles A fellow DBA working with me resized the System tablespace to double its size i.e. from 500MB to 1GB: I dont like the practise of just arbitrarily doubling a datafile size and it sitting empty for years, but apart from extra backup time , would this large oversized datafile upset the database engine in any way, or be inefficient at a database or o/s level: I suspect certain areas but to busy right now RTFM. p.s. 8.1.6 / solaris 2.8 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
