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It is my understanding that SMON only cleans up the temp TS under the
following circumstances:
I've only seen this out of temp space scenario occur for one of our developers whose temp space didn't have a lot of space in the first place, so increasing the size of your temp TS is probably worth looking into.
Regards,
Chris Gait
Oracle DBA
Arlington, VA
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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 3:03 PM
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Looking for some information on the following:
We had an incident last week where an Oracle instance (7.3.4.4) on NT was running into problems acquiring space for additional extents on the defined temporary tablespace.
While looking at the situation, we discovered that there was just about
zero
free space left in the tablespace. There was a whole bunch of extents
created and owned by "SYS" and they had some flaky numeric
identifier for the segment-name (something like 37.123).
Other processes were failing, being unable to allocate temp space.
We looked around on Metalink, and discovered a note about forcing temporary segments/extents to be cleaned up by performing an "ALTER TABLESPACE TEMP DEFAULT STORAGE (PCTINCREASE 0);"
We executed the statement. Lo and behold, all the segments disappeared,
back into
free space.
My guess is that there was a large sort (we do some of those) that failed, and left segments out there. I do not understand why they wouldn't clean up.
Any information?
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