Do you have a lot of locally managed tablespaces? Doing a read from dba_extents can cause quite an I/O with locally managed tablespaces.
My 2 cents. Raj Janardhana Babu Donga To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <jbdonga@ucda cc: vis.edu> Subject: RE: DBA_EXTENTS problem Sent by: root@fatcity. com May 09, 2002 04:38 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L I have deleted the statistics from 'SYS' and SYSTEM' as suggested by Suzy and made sure that they were gone by issuing the query: select table_name,owner from dba_tables where owner in ('SYS','SYSTEM') and last_analyzed is not null; It returned no rows this time. But why is my query: select count(*) from dba_extents is still sitting there? Is there anything else I should do? Restart the DB/something?? Thanks for any response. -- Babu -----Original Message----- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I knew someone on the list would have it :) thanks Suzy. actually, I'd do dbms_stats.delete_schema_stats('SYS') this time through to fix the problem and then change the dbms_stats command to dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats instead of database |--------+-----------------------> | | | | | | | | lvordos@qwest| | | .com | | | | | | 05/09/2002 | | | 03:44 PM | | | Please | | | respond to | | | ORACLE-L | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >----------------------------------------------------| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: (bcc: Rachel Carmichael) | | Subject: Re: DBA_EXTENTS problem | >----------------------------------------------------| dbms_stats.gather_database_stats has a bug, it analyzes SYS objects. >From Metalink: Bug:1422285 is a severity 3 bug that was logged for the dbms_stats.gather_database_stats collecting statistics on the data dictionary objects (FET$ was the example). This bug is fixed in 9i. A workaround is to execute dbms_stats.gather_database_statistics + dbms_stats.delete_schema_stats('SYS'). Janardhana Babu Donga wrote: > > I have recently changed the analyze script. Earliar it was > dbms_utility.analyze_schema(...) statement, It is now changed to > dbms_stats.gather_database_stats(); > > Is this a problem? > > The response time for select count(*) from dba_extents is also 30 minutes. > It is not specific to any table. > Thanks, > -- Babu > > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:36 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > that's interesting... since the data dictionary is NOT analyzed, setting > optimizer_mode=choose would force the query against dba_extents to RULE > which it > what it is supposed to be doing anyway, Hm. The question now is, what is the > optimizer_mode set to when the problem happens? Did any of the data > dictionary > tables get accidentally analyzed? And -- how many extents are in use in the > database? Could it just be a symptom of missized tables and indexes so that > the > number of extents is way high? > > Although Oracle is *supposed* to allow unlimited extents, in practice > anything > higher than 4096 extents in an object (at least in 8i) tends to slow things > down. > > |--------+-----------------------> > | | | > | | | > | | jack_silvey@y| > | | ahoo.com | > | | | > | | 05/09/2002 | > | | 02:18 PM | > | | Please | > | | respond to | > | | ORACLE-L | > | | | > |--------+-----------------------> > >----------------------------------------------------| > | | > | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | cc: (bcc: Rachel Carmichael) | > | Subject: Re: DBA_EXTENTS problem | > >----------------------------------------------------| > > Babu, > > We had a similiar problem, and setting optimizer_mode > = choose in our session solved it. Something to do > with optimizer and DD access. Give that a try. I had > the same problem with DBA_INDEXES and that fixed it. > > hth, > > Jack > > --- Janardhana Babu Donga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > When I query dba_extents , Iam getting response > > after half an hour to 40 > > minutes, but when I query any other dictionary view > > it is spontaneous. > > Everything else is fine in the database and there > > are no problems, except > > the above problem. Iam not getting any clue how to > > fix this. Iam thinking of > > running catalog.sql and catproc.sql as a last > > resort. Iam not sure it would > > fix the problem. Please let me know if there is any > > other way to fix this > > problem. > > > > Thanks, > > Babu -- 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).