Re: Ways to improve speediness of truncate, drop, coalesce

That's an interesting thought, but why do you think that only one DBWR process can scan at a time ?

If you have multiple working data sets,
surely you can have one dbwr process
per working data set doing the scanning. After all, each working data set has its own 'range reuse' list (or should that be the 'object reuse' list for truncate)

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 18 August 2001 14:41

|
|The size of the buffer cache and the number of
|DB_WRITER_PROCESSES has a big impact on the time it
|takes to truncate a table.
|
|Each DBWR process has to scan its portion of the
|buffer cache to flush any blocks belonging to the
|truncated table or its indexes. This is a sequential
|process as only one DBWR process can do this at a
|time.
|

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