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Re: SORT_AREA_SIZE parameter

From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 05:55:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005A13FA.20030523055542@fatcity.com>


Craig,

Rather than change EVERYTHING back, can you, on initial login of that process, set the sort_area_size and sort_area_retained_size back to the original figures?

i.e.,

alter session set sort_area_size=65536;
alter session set sort_area_retained_size=65536;

and then let it process? This would set that one session back to the original configuration without affecting the others.

And yes, 10M is a bit higher as the sort_area_size is allocated in the PGA so *every* connected process got that much memory allocated. A good, generic rule of thumb is to set the sort_area_size to the same size as your temporary tablespace extent sizes and then tune, if necessary, from there.

Rachel    


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