RE: Increasing Freelists?

Wow, must be in a new version of oracle.

Like 8.0.0.0.1

:)

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You can do an alter table TABLENAME storage freelists N ----- Original Message -----
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> The table must be dropped, yes.
>
> Default for table is 1 freelist, 2 for indexes.
>
> This is not scientific ( both because there are no
> data to support it in your post and I have no hard
> perf data of my own ) but freelists are small and
> easily/rapidly maintained. Unless you have some
> sort of "niche-y" oddball application that needs
> every drop of space in a block, you can safely bump
> yourself up to 10 freelists on your hot tables. Maybe
> just a 2x or 4x on your less incandescent ones.
>
> But, most important: for my money, LoadRunner does
> not always accurately simulate actual loads.
>
> You might be tuning yourself away from a non-existent
> problem.
>
> hth
>
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> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 3:31 PM
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>
>
> We've been load testing an application that will be allowing customers to
> enter their email information through the web. The loadrunner application
> was experiencing periodic freezing after which it would go back to normal.
> Reviewing the statspack information I saw a high number of buffer busy
waits
> with the majority of the buffer waits being data block waits. This is not
> surprising, since the application is doing heavy inserts into several
> tables.
> The recommendation from an article I have is to create multiple freelists
> for the tables undergoing heavy inserts. I've never done this before and
I
> have no idea of how many to create. Increase the freelists from 1 to 2?
> More? What about freelist groups?
>
> And am I correct that the table must be dropped and recreated to increase
> this parameter?
>
> I was hoping to have read Gaja's book before I had to deal with this but
> it's still in the mail :).
>
> Thanks in advance.
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