RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally -Sort Area

2002-05-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Simon - My apologies. Tim's response was for the other problem that is getting a lot of responses. In trying to read the postings as well as get some work done here, I confused the two. I was thinking that the response said that the loader first loads into the TEMPORARY segment, then merge

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally

2002-05-14 Thread Rodrigues, Bryan
Simon, If auto extend is on the tablespace and there is a runaway or resource intensive process that is using up a great amount of temp space, Oracle will keep expanding the size of the tablespace until you have run out of space on the disk. Bryan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally -Sort Area

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Waibale
Dennis, I haven't seen Tim's posting !!? as regards my woos -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Simon - I think Tim has given you a good answer to your TEMP tablespace growth. I just wanted to warn you to be cautious about ext

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally -Sort Area

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Waibale
TEMPORARY -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is your TEMP tablespace set to TEMPORARY or PERMANENT? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Forgot to tell y

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Waibale
Yes, But this shouldn't warrant 'indefinite extension' of the TB ?!? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Do you have auto extend on the temp tablespace? Bryan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:10 PM To:

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally -Sort Area

2002-05-14 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I think you meant 8MB not 8GB, right? Take a look at v$sort_usage and find these sessions that are filling the TEMP TS. >From there find the sql behind this temp space and try to figure out if it's normal to allocate this space or there is a CARTESIAN join for example that is giving you this prob

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally -Sort Area

2002-05-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Simon - I think Tim has given you a good answer to your TEMP tablespace growth. I just wanted to warn you to be cautious about extremely large sizes of SORT_AREA_SIZE. This is a per-process setting, which means that if you have several processes, each process may acquire a lot of memory and the ov

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally

2002-05-14 Thread Rodrigues, Bryan
Do you have auto extend on the temp tablespace? Bryan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, Having a bad start of week. My temp tablespace is growing abnormally -from 3GB -> 32 GB (Filled up disk). DB is 81700 on Tru64 U

RE: TEMP tablespace growing abnormally -Sort Area

2002-05-14 Thread Wong, Bing
Is your TEMP tablespace set to TEMPORARY or PERMANENT? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Forgot to tell you that myparameter for sort_area_size= apx. 8GB -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 8:02 PM To: