Re: Temporary Tablespace Design

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 07:40, you wrote:
> Hi John,
> After the sort phase is complete, Oracle will trigger memory
> de-allocation and the OS will go at work again.

Kirti,

I seem to recall a post from Steve Adams not too long ago about this. As I recall, free() is not called immediately, but may be delayed.

Know anything about that?

Jared

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