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Re: question about large pool

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 03:39:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005A8AB3.20030603033941@fatcity.com>


Well, I was talking about cursors, sort areas and hash areas. I probably did confuse "GA stuff".
On 2003.06.02 22:27 Tim Gorman wrote:
> Almost. It is the UGA areas (not the PGA) for Shared Server (a.k.a.
> multi-threaded server) that are re-located to the Large Pool, if it exists.
> Otherwise, they reside in the Shared Pool and all hell breaks loose,
> performance wise...
>
> Also, if DBWR_IO_SLAVES > 0, then those IPC queues will reside in the Large
> Pool, if it is configured. Otherwise, these reside in the Shared Pool, and
> if you think having UGAs from Shared Server in the Shared Pool play hell
> with performance, then wait until you are pushing all of your I/O to the
> datafiles through the Shared Pool... :-)
>
>
>
> on 6/2/03 2:24 PM, Gogala, Mladen at MGogala_at_oxhp.com wrote:
>
> > Nope, it's not accurate. PGA areas for shared server sessions are also
> > allocated from the large pool.
> >
> > Mladen Gogala
> > Oracle DBA
> > Phone:(203) 459-6855
> > Email:mgogala_at_oxhp.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 4:35 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > for some reason we have 100MB large pool. I dont think we need it at all. I
> > read that its only used by RMAN or Parallel server. Is that accurate?
> >>
> >> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
> >> Date: 2003/06/02 Mon PM 03:39:42 EDT
> >> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >> Subject: RE: question about large pool
> >>
> >> Use the large pool to store what? I can think of 3 aspects of a
> > transaction:
> >> - Rollback (you've probably read about SET TRANSACTION)
> >> - SQL statements, execution plans (more an issue with bind variables)
> >> - Data blocks
> >> It sounds like you might be thinking of data blocks. You didn't mention
> > your
> >> Oracle version, but from 8i on you can define 3 buffer pools. The normal
> > one
> >> is DEFAULT. You can also define a KEEP and RECYCLE pool. Someone on this
> >> list (sorry I can't recall who) pointed out that there isn't anything
> > magic
> >> about those labels. If your transaction uses different tables from the
> > other
> >> transactions, you could create what is needed for those tables in one of
> >> those pools, assign the tables to that pool, and this would minimize the
> >> interference. If all the transactions hit pretty much the same tables,
> > then
> >> Oracle is probably reusing the blocks anyway. Hope this responds to your
> >> question.
> >>
> >> Dennis Williams
> >> DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
> >> Lifetouch, Inc.
> >> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 1:40 PM
> >> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >>
> >>
> >> I think I read this somewhere, but I cant find it. Is it possible to use
> > the
> >> large pool for a specific transaction? We run alot of large batch DML
> >> statements over night. We have one that involves an 8GB table. The blocks
> >> from this table are being knocked out of the buffer cache by shorter and
> >> quicker batches.
> >>
> >> Id like to find to store this transaction in memory without having to
> > worry
> >> about them getting knocked out of memory.
> >> Cache wont do it. It will stick get pushed out.
> >>
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