where can one find the other myths about oracle? Venkat --
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:18:35 Connor McDonald wrote: >Oracle Myth #1745 > >"When u set the sort_area_size for a database, it will >allocate that much memory PER USER for any sort >operation being performed on the database" > > > > --- "SARKAR, Samir" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Arvind, >> >> When u set the sort_area_size for a database, it >> will allocate that much >> memory PER USER >> for any sort operation being performed on the >> database. In practice, it >> means that if u allocate >> too high a value for the sort_area_size and multiple >> users are performing >> multiple sorts, the Unix >> system may run out of memory and Oracle will return >> u a process memory >> error. >> >> For eg. if u have ur sort_area_size as 100MB and u >> have 10 users performing >> sort operations >> on the database, Oracle will take up 100*10 MB >> memory. 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