sort of on the subject.....I once had a table with ~88000 extents (most 1 block!) it took 8 hours to delete and a subsequent coalesce ran for 2 hours before failing as it ran out of shared memory....(8.1.5).....
-----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Jeremiah, The problem arose in the catalog upgrade script. It would never return. My diary says we let one attempt run for 36 hours. The process showed CPU usage and I/O but nothing happened. Some of the Oracle guys figured the problem was with the $fet (or whatever tables hold the extent info, I never bother with the internals of the data dictionary) having problems while being restructured. Once the tables were changed from 40K to 500M extents the upgrade took less than 2 hours. One of the suggestions I did not use was to edit sql.bsq to provide much larger extents for the table holding the extent info. Even though I do this for the SOURCE$ table I am a big fan of the KISS principle and rebuilding the tables needed to be done anyways. HTH Dave > Can you elaborate on exactly what happened? 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 is just a > catalog script and a binary change. What error did you encounter, and > at which step in the upgrade? Extents should not matter in an > upgrade. -- Dave Morgan DBA, Cybersurf Office: 403 777 2000 ext 284 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Dave Morgan 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: Wiegand, Kurt 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).