RE: Problem - V$BUFFER_POOL_STATISTICS

2001-10-20 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Saurabh, Try running $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catperf.sql first. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent

RE: os block size versus oracle bock size

2001-10-23 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, Oracle uses direct I/O on W2K so the O/S block size is an irrelevance. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message

RE: DB FILE PARALLEL WRITE

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Jack, It is a background wait, so unless user processes are waiting for DBWn in 'free buffer waits' or 'write complete waits' then you don't have a problem, no matter how big the 'db file parallel wait' numbers are. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: extent deallocation question

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
to another object. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 13:55 To: Multiple recipients

RE: extent deallocation question

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Riyaj, The checkpoint object call is used prior to a direct read of an object. DBW0 scans the cache once based on the obj#. This was introduced in 8.0 as an optimization for parallel query. Previously each extent was checkpointed separately. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
the sessions holding the pins. See executing_packages.sql at http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/misc.htm#executing_packages for an example. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
the sessions holding the pins. See executing_packages.sql at http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/misc.htm#executing_packages for an example. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Rahul, 0 means not pinned; 3 means pinned in exclusive mode. I don't know what 1 means. I'm not accustomed to seeing it. Do you have any examples? @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-30 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Rahul, Ah, I see. You're looking at KGLHDLMD instead of KGLHDPMD. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-30 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Nirmal, There is some information about the X$ tables available on the Ixora web site. However, knowledge of the X$ tables is not really important for most DBAs. They are only useful in rare, advanced tuning and diagnostic situations. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: Identifying user and locked table row in Oracle 8i

2001-10-30 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Tamas, When a session is waiting for a row-level lock you can see the row required in the V$SESSION columns ROW_WAIT_OBJ#, ROW_WAIT_FILE#, ROW_WAIT_BLOCK# and ROW_WAIT_ROW#. A script like Oracle's utllockt.sql can be used to identify the blocker. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: Arch configuration -- I/O stuck

2001-10-31 Thread Steve Adams
of cache available for the archival writes. You would also do well to avoid RAID-S of course! @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 5:45

RE: Synonyms can be VERY bad for performance

2001-10-31 Thread Steve Adams
. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 10:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Greg, I may be way off here but FIRST_ROWS

RE: TTI Layer Function codes

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Adams
hardware diagnostic logs for evidence of either memory or network errors, and make sure that you don't have someone trying to use some old client software that is not compatible with the RDBMS version. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http

RE: Arch configuration -- I/O stuck

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Adams
that you scanned already had a large number of block in the cache. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 6:39 To: Steve Adams; Multiple recipients

RE: Raw partition Vs File System

2001-11-12 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, Does anyone have an email address for Bert? I looked for his email address when I first read that article a week ago, but did not find one. I think I know what was wrong with his test, but it is hard to be sure because he left out a lot of the details. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams

RE: frequent commit, example ??? HELP

2001-11-18 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Andrea, Don't do it! Adding commits makes the code more complex, much less efficient and risks violating transactional integrity. See http://www.ixora.com.au/newsletter/2001_09.htm#commits for a detailed explanation of the problems. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: RE: Raw partition Vs File System

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Adams
doubled db_block_buffers, but unless going from about 600M to about 1.2G, then it was not a level playing field. Unfortunately, he does not give those numbers. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all

RE: Virtual Circuit Status

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Adams
, although it is in the V$ views, nor is it visible in the trace files because the waiting session does not have a corresponding process that is waiting). @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message

RE: Tuning help required

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Adams
to be returned from the first row piece. Although it is possible for that to be the case with row chaining, it's more likely a symptom of migration. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all accept OwnerName prompt Owner

RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-25 Thread Steve Adams
of chunks and thus the relative size of these and other shared pool areas depends entirely how recently objects have been used, because they all share the same LRU mechanisms (although there is an additional subordinate LRU mechanism for the dictionary cache). @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-25 Thread Steve Adams
can see chunks moving from the transient to recurrent list. My best guess at the moment is that when new recreatable chunks are first unpinned, they go onto the transient list, and then when they have been reused, they go back onto the recurrent list. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-29 Thread Steve Adams
is that the ADDR column of the X$ output now returns addresses which map into your PGA rather than the SGA. In fact, that is in general a good way to work out whether you are looking at an X$ table or an X$ interface. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-29 Thread Steve Adams
; others like these ones you've mentioned do not need to, but some of them do so anyway. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Steve Adams

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Adams
, but there is no corresponding metadata in the dictionary cache. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Steve Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 12:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi

RE: what is in the UGA?

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Adams
. So yes, package variables and bind variable are there (although the bind meta-data is in the SGA) but sort areas, row source buffers, and runtime state data are also major space consumers. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http

RE: what is in the CGA?

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Adams
was under way when the PGA heap dump was taken. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Satav, Pawan Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 8:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good

RE: Suggestions Needed: Latch free - library cache

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Adams
not notice all of this unless you start doing library cache dumps. That is, the use of public synonyms is a major scalability threat, but does not normally cause performance problems. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au

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