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 hosting company) but none of the power to make sure it's right. I love my job. Why? Rachel --- "Gogala, Mladen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 | |undef |code | > __lseek64 | 6589540|uext |stub | > __lseek64 | 7173576|uext |stub | > > > That meens that lseek64 is used, as an external symbol, from > the OS libraries. That, in turn, means that your oracle is using > 64 bit routines and is, therefore, 64 bit itself and can handle > large files. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:33 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: datafile sizing question > > > > > > Okay, I'm about to create some locally managed tablespaces for some > > large partitioned tables. I plan on making each datafile 2GB, with > an > > extent of 20M. > > > > What I've done other times when I use LMTs is add 64K to the > > file size, > > for the bitmap header, so that I don't waste most of an extent. But > in > > those cases, the datafile size has been less than 2GB. > > > > We will be on Solaris 2.8, I know that the OS can handle files > larger > > than 2GB but it makes me nervous to do this. > > > > I hate to waste most of 20M just for the bitmap header. > > > > Is my thinking way off? If you've been doing this sort of sizing > (it's > > a data warehouse, yes), what have you done? > > > > thanks! > > > > Rachel > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > -- > > Author: Rachel Carmichael > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting > services > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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: Gogala, Mladen > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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). __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Rachel Carmichael INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).
