how would coalescing help even if there were a lot of smaller free extents? Oracle would do the coalesce automatically, there would be no difference between manually coalescing or allowing Oracle to do it when a new extent was needed.
--- Richard Ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coalescing might help if there are many smaller free extents > that can be coalesced. But that still doesn't solve Jay's problem. > Because he doesn't want the table to extent at all since he just > deleted > 2 million rows so there are plenty of space within the segment > itself. > Those free blocks should be used, unless he is doing a direct path > insert > which will only use space above the HWM. > > Richard Ji > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 2:05 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > did u coalesced the tablespaces? > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: sexta-feira, 29 de Novembro de 2002 17:59 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Okay, I can't figure this one out. Earlier this week I got an > ORA-1653: > unable to extend table on a really big table. However this was just > after I > had deleted over 2 million rows in the table and we were only > inserting > 30,000. > > After reanalyzing the table I saw the following stats in DBA_TABLES: > > num_freelist_blocks: 2266966 > avg_space_freelist_blocks: 3895 > > Unless I'm misreading this I should have had over 8Gig available for > inserts. > > We tried the insert again and got the same error so I added a > datafile and > it went through (using about 40Meg of space in the new datafile). > > Why isn't it making use of the existing blocks on the freelist? > > Oracle 8.1.7.2 > Solaris 2.6 > PCTFREE = 10 > PCTUSED = 75 > Block Size = 4K > > > Jay Miller > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Miller, Jay > 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: Paulo Gomes > 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: Richard Ji > 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!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.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).
