RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
What if we need Extent SIZES Greater than 20 MB to Check Fragmentation ? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We tend to use multiples of 1Gb and add 1 Mb to the file so that we get 2001, 10001 Mb etc Solaris 2.8 LMT

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
with evenly sized extents, there is no such thing as fragmentation anymore and Oracle can deal with objects with numbers of extents up to about 4000 before it starts to slow down a bit. --- VIVEK_SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if we need Extent SIZES Greater than 20 MB to Check

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: datafile sizing question Rachel, Are there any studies or papers that test and explain this new magic 4000 extents number? My manager is excited about LMT, but no so excited about number of extents. So, if there is a good paper, I can make him feel happy about this ... Thanks

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2002-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: datafile sizing question Do your own testing. Don't rely on papers. Prove it yourself. It's easy. There are two types of "performance" implied in this discussion about extent allocation and deallocation: performance of SQL statements like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, D

Re: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Fragmentation or tablespace fragmentation does not simply mean more than one extent, as it appears you are assuming. Also, it is an obsolete concept where LMTs are involved, in all but a few difficult-to-imagine situations. Please read one or more of the following: Craig Shallahamer's All

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2002-09-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj Print http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/defrag.pdf http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/defrag.pdf - very well-written, direct from Oracle's site, so he will accept it as official. BTW - In this paper, for Oracle 8 and above, the correct extent sizes are 120-k, 4-m,

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I haven't seen any papers.. I was told this (4096 is the exact number) in an Internals class. However, there are lots of papers out there saying multiple extents are not a problem, and you should be able to find them on the web. --- Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, Are

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: datafile sizing question Thanks you Dennis, Rachel, Tim for the pointers. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Title: RE: datafile sizing question If Next Extent Sizing is NON-Uniform for an LMT , will the Larger Number of Extents cause Fragmentation Performance Degradation ? If so What Number of Extents may be Considered as a Candidate for DE-Fragmentation ? NOTE - We have been Manually

Re: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: datafile sizing question I don't know if you intended to "shout", but using color for your reply certainly does so... Can you prove any benefit from the extraordinaryactions of overriding LMT extent control and using EXP/IMP, ALTER TABLE ... MOVE, ALTER INDEX .

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-27 Thread Jared . Still
PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: datafile sizing question I also have a just curious question. Do most interchange the values 1000K for 1M or 1000M for 1G? I try to be precise in my usage, but I guess that's just the AR size of my personality. OK, I'll go find my pills now

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2002-09-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
PROTECTED] 09/26/2002 08:33 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: datafile sizing question I also have a just curious question. Do most interchange the values 1000K for 1M

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2002-09-26 Thread John . Hallas
We tend to use multiples of 1Gb and add 1 Mb to the file so that we get 2001, 10001 Mb etc Solaris 2.8 LMT uniform extents range from 64K to 20Mb John -Original Message- Sent: 25 September 2002 19:44 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We created two datafiles of 16GB+64K all

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
10001Mb? the uniform extent sizes map to what I'll be using as well. good to know I'm not way off track --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We tend to use multiples of 1Gb and add 1 Mb to the file so that we get 2001, 10001 Mb etc Solaris 2.8 LMT uniform extents range from 64K to 20Mb John

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread John . Hallas
Yes, 10Gb datafiles. I think we have a 35Gb datafile somewhere but I have not looked at that database myself John -Original Message- Sent: 26 September 2002 12:03 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 10001Mb? the uniform extent sizes map to what I'll be using as well. good to

Re: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread Tim Gorman
Datafile sizing affects the speed of backup and restore, since each datafile can only be backed up or restored by one process at a time. As a result, I try to keep datafiles at uniform sizes of 2-4 Gb max. How do such large and variable-sized datafiles impact your backups and restores? Just

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rachel - In the whitepaper How to Stop Defragmenting and Start Living, they make a big deal under LMT about selecting specific extent sizes, and those optimum sizes are different for Oracle 8i and Oracle 8. For Oracle 8i the sizes are 128k, 4m, 128m. I couldn't follow the complete logic of why

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread John . Hallas
Tim, I cannot speak for the 35Gb datafile which is a one-off but for the systems where we have datafiles files 4Gb we invariably use EDM to break a mirror and then RMAN proxy against that. The mirror is then kept off-line until we are ready to do the next backup. At that point the mirror is

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread Hand, Michael T
I also have a just curious question. Do most interchange the values 1000K for 1M or 1000M for 1G? I try to be precise in my usage, but I guess that's just the AR size of my personality. OK, I'll go find my pills now. ;) By the way, we use a maximum size of 4Gb+8k file size but, I've never has

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Michael - I've done it both ways, and yes, it depends on how AR you wish to be. You can convert everything to K and get pretty precise. Or you can simply create the tablespace and datafile, then query the free space and create your table accordingly. Of course LMT with uniform extents changes the

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Subject:RE: datafile sizing question I think it's automatic on Solaris 2.8 but I don't know for sure so I'd rather not rely on it. I'm going with 2001M and creating about a year's worth of tablespaces/partitions. 101 datafiles and tablespaces. Just to START. my aching typing fingers

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-26 Thread Gesler, Rich
Well as long as we are being AR...Don't you mean DEC/Compaq/HP :-) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I also have a just curious question. Do most interchange the values 1000K for 1M or 1000M for 1G? I try to be

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Hi Rachel, I know the guy who creates the warehouses here uses 4Gb datafiles (I believe he creates them at 4050Mb). We are on Tru64 Unix He is on his honeymoon at the moment so I cannot ask him his reasoning. Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 25 September 2002 17:33 To: Multiple

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I know that wuth 64 bit HP-UX and 64 bit Oracle RDBMS, I have no problems with 1 8GB file. I don't know much about Solaris, but I suppose the following will work: nm $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so|grep lseek64 Results should be nonempty and look something like this: __lseek64 |

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Fink, Dan
Are you going with 2048M or the traditional 2000m? A quick dirty way to not waste the space is to use 2001m or 2041m. You 'waste' a little space, but not much. Dan Fink -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Okay, I'm

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: datafile sizing question We created two datafiles of 16GB+64K all LMT autoallocate ... never gave a problem. A basic testing concluded that fixed size allocation of 128M caused unnecessary delays whereas autoallocate was much faster. I don't know the full details yet, but I'll know

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
AHA!I was going to go with 2000M so that's beautiful, 2001M would work perfectly without going over. I don't mind wasting less than a meg. I love the logic everyone here at work has. disk is cheap, don't worry about it. Except every time I ask for more disk, I hear it's too expensive Rachel ---

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I'm betting that it's not 64-bit Oracle. See, I am the development DBA. As an employee, I get to create the scripts, but I don't get to run them or even get access as oracle to the servers. In other words, all the grunt work, all the responsibility for problems (production is managed by a

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I believe that the OS filesystem has to be configured for large file support (on HP-UX, it's a kernel parameter) to allow files 2 GB. I usually just add 1 MB to the file size to allow for the header. Personally, I'd play it safe and go with however many 2001 MB files you need to accommodate

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Vogons. Let me know if you'd like me to recite some poetry. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: datafile sizing question AHA!I was going to go

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Rachel, if you can execute sqlplus, you can do the nm thing. You don't need to log in as oracle. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: datafile sizing

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I think it's automatic on Solaris 2.8 but I don't know for sure so I'd rather not rely on it. I'm going with 2001M and creating about a year's worth of tablespaces/partitions. 101 datafiles and tablespaces. Just to START. my aching typing fingers! --- Paul Baumgartel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: datafile sizing question AHA!I was going to go with 2000M so that's beautiful, 2001M would work

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
, 2002 3:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: datafile sizing question I'm betting that it's not 64-bit Oracle. See, I am the development DBA. As an employee, I get to create the scripts, but I don't get to run them or even get access as oracle to the servers