RE: session pga memory value is much higher than Sort_Area_Size

I had the same problem. First, i realized that - it seems - there are other things that will bump the PGA. For me it was insert /*+ append */. However, after upgrading from 8.1.5 to 8.1.7 the problem went away.

Hope this helps, and your mileage may vary.

Good luck,

Yosi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Srikannan Gopalsamy [mailto:sgopalsamy_at_walmart.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:58 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: session pga memory value is much higher than Sort_Area_Size
>
>
> We've set sort_area_size to 8M, but the session pga memory
> usage shows much
> higher than 8M, in fact its about 176M.
>
> The heap value for the shadow process also confirms the size
> of the PGA
> area.
> 01A40000 180496K read/write/exec [ heap ]
>
> I thought that the PGA size should not go beyond sort_area_size.
>
> Are we missing anything here?
>
> Thank for your help.
>
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