RE: RE: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak
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RE: Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak
Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our production DBAs does not want to use pga_aggregate_target on a 9.2.0.3 instance due to a possible memory leak. The only note on memory leaks and pga_aggregate_target I can find on metalink is: 334427.995 doesnt seem to apply to pga_aggregate_target. We are on sun solaris. Dont know version offhand. he is under the impression that if we patch to 9.2.0.4 this goes away. not sure about that either... Be careful with pga_aggregate_target. I have very recently seen a case (Solaris + 9.2 but I cant't tell you exactly which patch level - probably the most recent) where two (by the way atrocious) queries generated by a DSS tool were responding very differently - and in a way that differences in the queries couldn't explain. From an Oracle standpoint, stats were roughly the same. Tracing proved that we were waiting for CPU, and truss that a call to mmap() was the culprit. Why, no idea. We first switched it (pga_thing) off, no more slow call to mmap(). However, it was still slow because we hadn't checked sort_area_size which was ridiculously small. We set sort_area_size to 10M, still with pga_aggregate_target unset, and once again the same very slow calls to mmap(). Memory misalignment? Anything else? Not much time to enquire but it looks like a mine field. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Paul Drake 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.net -- Author: Ryan 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.net -- Author: Arnold, Sandra 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).
RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!
I went through the webpage but never got the confirmation email back containing the code to be entered. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It's working for me, but slowly. I tried to do it through the webpage and got the first confirmation e-mail back (containing a code to enter on the webpage.) Then I subscribed to the new list, got a second e-mail back to confirm my subscription, and replied to that. I'm sure more things will show up shortly. One caveat though: the first response was caught by my work's spam filter and flagged as spam. -Original Message- Ron Thomas The list members must be really hammering their servers now. I've tried to sign up using both the web and email methods and have yet to receive a conformation/response. I can see the headlines now, oracle-l slashdots freelists.org -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jacques Kilchoer 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.net -- Author: Arnold, Sandra 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).
RE: Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak
-a) were all set to 'unlimited'. In a very limited testing, setting P_A_T to less than S_A_S (and S_A_R_S) worked, however, the disk sorts increased. Finally, Developers chose no hash joins, 1GB P_A_T and 'AUTO' workarea_size_policy... seems to run okay... - Kirti --- Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our production DBAs does not want to use pga_aggregate_target on a 9.2.0.3 instance due to a possible memory leak. The only note on memory leaks and pga_aggregate_target I can find on metalink is: 334427.995 doesnt seem to apply to pga_aggregate_target. We are on sun solaris. Dont know version offhand. he is under the impression that if we patch to 9.2.0.4 this goes away. not sure about that either... Be careful with pga_aggregate_target. I have very recently seen a case (Solaris + 9.2 but I cant't tell you exactly which patch level - probably the most recent) where two (by the way atrocious) queries generated by a DSS tool were responding very differently - and in a way that differences in the queries couldn't explain. From an Oracle standpoint, stats were roughly the same. Tracing proved that we were waiting for CPU, and truss that a call to mmap() was the culprit. Why, no idea. We first switched it (pga_thing) off, no more slow call to mmap(). However, it was still slow because we hadn't checked sort_area_size which was ridiculously small. We set sort_area_size to 10M, still with pga_aggregate_target unset, and once again the same very slow calls to mmap(). Memory misalignment? Anything else? Not much time to enquire but it looks like a mine field. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Paul Drake 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.net -- Author: Ryan 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.net -- Author: Arnold, Sandra 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.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS 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.net -- Author: Arnold, Sandra INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services
RE: Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak Setting P_A_T to a 1GB limit with over 2GB of *available memory* on AIX 4.3.3 and 9.2.0.4 caused ORA-4030, till we turned off hash joins. OS level resources (ulimit -a) were all set to 'unlimited'. In a very limited testing, setting P_A_T to less than S_A_S (and S_A_R_S) worked, however, the disk sorts increased. Finally, Developers chose no hash joins, 1GB P_A_T and 'AUTO' workarea_size_policy... seems to run okay... - Kirti --- Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our production DBAs does not want to use pga_aggregate_target on a 9.2.0.3 instance due to a possible memory leak. The only note on memory leaks and pga_aggregate_target I can find on metalink is: 334427.995 doesnt seem to apply to pga_aggregate_target. We are on sun solaris. Dont know version offhand. he is under the impression that if we patch to 9.2.0.4 this goes away. not sure about that either... Be careful with pga_aggregate_target. I have very recently seen a case (Solaris + 9.2 but I cant't tell you exactly which patch level - probably the most recent) where two (by the way atrocious) queries generated by a DSS tool were responding very differently - and in a way that differences in the queries couldn't explain. From an Oracle standpoint, stats were roughly the same. Tracing proved that we were waiting for CPU, and truss that a call to mmap() was the culprit. Why, no idea. We first switched it (pga_thing) off, no more slow call to mmap(). However, it was still slow because we hadn't checked sort_area_size which was ridiculously small. We set sort_area_size to 10M, still with pga_aggregate_target unset, and once again the same very slow calls to mmap(). Memory misalignment? Anything else? Not much time to enquire but it looks like a mine field. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Paul Drake 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.net -- Author: Ryan 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.net -- Author: Jeroen van Sluisdam 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.net -- Author: Arnold, Sandra 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
RE: [oracle-l] Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak
: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak Setting P_A_T to a 1GB limit with over 2GB of *available memory* on AIX 4.3.3 and 9.2.0.4 caused ORA-4030, till we turned off hash joins. OS level resources (ulimit -a) were all set to 'unlimited'. In a very limited testing, setting P_A_T to less than S_A_S (and S_A_R_S) worked, however, the disk sorts increased. Finally, Developers chose no hash joins, 1GB P_A_T and 'AUTO' workarea_size_policy... seems to run okay... - Kirti --- Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our production DBAs does not want to use pga_aggregate_target on a 9.2.0.3 instance due to a possible memory leak. The only note on memory leaks and pga_aggregate_target I can find on metalink is: 334427.995 doesnt seem to apply to pga_aggregate_target. We are on sun solaris. Dont know version offhand. he is under the impression that if we patch to 9.2.0.4 this goes away. not sure about that either... Be careful with pga_aggregate_target. I have very recently seen a case (Solaris + 9.2 but I cant't tell you exactly which patch level - probably the most recent) where two (by the way atrocious) queries generated by a DSS tool were responding very differently - and in a way that differences in the queries couldn't explain. From an Oracle standpoint, stats were roughly the same. Tracing proved that we were waiting for CPU, and truss that a call to mmap() was the culprit. Why, no idea. We first switched it (pga_thing) off, no more slow call to mmap(). However, it was still slow because we hadn't checked sort_area_size which was ridiculously small. We set sort_area_size to 10M, still with pga_aggregate_target unset, and once again the same very slow calls to mmap(). Memory misalignment? Anything else? Not much time to enquire but it looks like a mine field. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Paul Drake 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.net -- Author: Ryan 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.net -- Author: Arnold, Sandra 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.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS 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
Changing Character Set from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8
I am in the process of planning our upgrade for our 8.1.5 database to 8.1.7.4. This is the first step in upgrading all my databases to 9.2.0.4. As part of this upgrade I am changing the character set from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8. Has anyone done this change using the ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET command? If so, was there any problems? Thanks, Sandra Arnold Principal DBA NCI Information Systems -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Arnold, Sandra 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).
RE: Meeting at IOUG
I will be there also. Sandra Arnold DBA Strategic Staffing Solutions -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Me too, Me too!!! ROR mm Ron Rogers DBA OCP Georgia Lottery Corp. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ron Rogers 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: Arnold, Sandra 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).
