Re: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-24 Thread hemantchitale
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RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-24 Thread Post, Ethan
I hit 1397603 (think that was the one) and with it you completely lose service to the database. By the way, my understanding is that purging the shared pool when you hit 4031 errors is not always going to solve the problem because if there was SQL available to age out Oracle would do it. I run t

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-24 Thread Rajesh . Rao
On the topic, I once had a tablespace with 300,000+ free extents and 0 used extents. We executed a drop tablespace command, and looking at fet$ and the rate at which it was dropping extents from the table, we estimated it would take us 64 hours. This was on a 7.3.4 db, and we thought it better to

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-24 Thread A. Bardeen
Kurt, If you're on 8.1.6.3, 8.1.7.0.0 or 8.1.7.1.0 this sounds suspiciouslly like either bug 1640583 or bug 1397603, both of which are fixed in 8.1.7.2+ The workaround for bug 1397603 is to set _db_handles_cached = 0 in the init.ora. HTH, -- Anita --- "Wiegand, Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-24 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Sorry Jeremiah, I don't have a clue... got the same error (after the same 2 hours) after purging the shared pool; there was no activity at all on the database, so I thought about increasing the size of the shared pool (~10.5MB) but had a need, and the option, of simply replacing the database

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-22 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
sort of on the subject.I once had a table with ~88000 extents (most 1 block!) it took 8 hours to delete and a subsequent coalesce ran for 2 hours before failing as it ran out of shared memory(8.1.5). -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:55 AM To: Multiple reci

Re: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-22 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi Jeremiah, The problem arose in the catalog upgrade script. It would never return. My diary says we let one attempt run for 36 hours. The process showed CPU usage and I/O but nothing happened. Some of the Oracle guys figured the problem was with the $fet (or whatever tables hold the ex

Re: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-21 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Can you elaborate on exactly what happened? 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 is just a catalog script and a binary change. What error did you encounter, and at which step in the upgrade? Extents should not matter in an upgrade. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Dave Morg

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-21 Thread Browett, Darren
And I was worried about 20 to 60 extents. :) But I do have one question, if a table has multiple extents, 20 extents at 1Mb each, and they are contiguous, is that equal to 1 extent of 20Mb big ?? Does oracle have to work harder to get those 20 extents ? (okay two questions) Darren -Origin

Re: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi All, Actually, in extreme cases ( >87000 in my case, and I had 12 tables like that) it can cause problems with upgrading. Not sure what, but we had to do CTAS into new tables with much larger extents to do the upgrade from 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 here. Had Oracle support and consultants baffled

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-18 Thread Post, Ethan
Paul, With LMT's. uniform extents sizes and properly place objects I think you avoid most of the situations you described. Cary's paper at hotsos.com shows that in a system with a lot of activity your disk head is never going to fulfill the request for a full tablescan in a single operation anyw

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-18 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Hello, My 2 cents: It does make a difference to reorg, esp. when done thoughtfully, with a specific goal in mind. For example, if you have a order_log table that started with first extent 1MB and next extent 1MB, and this table has grown in size to say, 10 million rows (business is good), you wo

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-18 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jerry - You could approach the issue a little more subtly. Here is an Oracle paper where Oracle recommends locally managed tablespaces and uniform extents. If you can point out to them that you are a modern DBA that is keeping up with new Oracle features, I think that would be persuasive. http:/

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-18 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Jerry, Tell the client that you will be HAPPY to reorg the tables and indexes over 10 extents. It will cost X dollars and take Y hours of downtime/slowdown. Insert inappropriately huge numbers into X and Y. It's amazing how quickly people will change their minds when you talk hours and dollars.

Re: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-18 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Hey Jeremiah, add in something to the last paragraph about how using LMTs will obviate the problem in truncating tables with lots of extents :) There really is NO reason to worry about large numbers of extents these days. I mean, I wouldn't want to really test the "unlimited" ability but other th

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-17 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jerry - Maybe I'm missing something here. Since you refer to them as a "client", you must have a consulting relationship with them - right? So if you rebuild the tables, you get more money - right? So you rebuild the tables, the client is happy, and you are a little wealthier - right? Or maybe you

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-17 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
sage-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cunningham, GeraldSent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:46 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit! Hi there -   I'm trying to convince a client that multiple

Re: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Here's my swing at it: http://www.speakeasy.org/~jwilton/oracle/lots-of-extents.html -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Cunningham, Gerald wrote: > I'm trying to convince a client that multiple extents for a table will not > hurt their performance. It's a

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-17 Thread Post, Ethan
, 2002 3:46 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit! Hi there -   I'm trying to convince a client that multiple extents for a table will not hurt their performance. It's a PeopleSoft app, and PeopleSoft is telling them that they need to

RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-17 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: Message hit metalink...there are things there     -Original Message-From: Cunningham, Gerald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:46 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit! Hi there

multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

2002-01-17 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Title: Message Hi there -   I'm trying to convince a client that multiple extents for a table will not hurt their performance. It's a PeopleSoft app, and PeopleSoft is telling them that they need to reorg any object with greater than 10 extents (even indexes). This Oracle 8.1.6.   I've ref