RE: A VLDB contest

        These are two node RAC clusters under reasonable load for a couple of months (using Swingbench), and sharing the same hardware / ASM. To be as automatic as possible, I've got sga_max_size and sga_target set to 500M, which suggests that the ASM extent pointer array

is bigger than my SGA!
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...can't be bigger than your SGA since it is a component of the shared pool. You
must mean larger than your buffer pool..and bingo, now the lights are comping on :-)         

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