My understanding is only the block(s) that gets requested and read by any application will be flagged to stay in the most recently used side of the LRU buffer chains. Having the object marked as cache will not make Oracle to load the whole thing in memory and pin it there.
regards, Waleed -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How much memory is consumed by cache tables? For example, if you have a small amount of data in a lookup table that's locally managed with 128K uniform extents, does it consume 128K of memory even if the data is only in one 8k DB block? (If that's the case then it would be better to assign it to a keep buffer pool.) Steve Orr -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Orr, Steve 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: Khedr, Waleed 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).