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guys, i think you were right. it's been ~22 hours now since i issued drop tablespace command, and it is still executing, but, since i had the listener down and nobody has ever connected since, i can see continous log switching in my bdump/alert*.log and a huge accumulation of .arc files in my /arc directory which something i going on. i am goona let it run forever, now, and i dont care how long it will take. thanks for the help.
-- Thanks, ahmed "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:982927632.10850.1.nnrp-10.9e984b29_at_news.demon.co.uk... 'GC' has almost certainly diagnosed your problem correctly. You have a 14Gb temp tablespace which grew out of your control. When you restart the database, you will probably see the SMON processes running at 100% to clean up the mess of extents created in that temporary tablespace. 7 hours is NOT extreme - the newsgroup has had reports to 14 - 21 hours for cleaning up tablespaces with tens of thousands of freed extents. Just hang in there and wait. -- Jonathan Lewis Yet another Oracle-related web site: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases Publishers: Addison-Wesley Reviews at: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/book_rev.html ahmed kashif wrote in message <9745b8$oc1$1_at_news.ccit.arizona.edu>...Received on Fri Feb 23 2001 - 10:51:24 CST
>Howard,
>
>thanks for your help, but it still hangs on me when i try to drop the
>tablespace. i let it run for almost 7 hrs last night. and yes, when moved
>the datafile i did the way it should be i.e taking it offline first, alter
>database rename..., then os level move and then bring it back online. like
i
>mentioned earlier, since it was soo frustating, i have already deleted the
>temp file from the file system. then i tried to drop the tablespace through
>'drop tablespace...' - made no difference. now i have _copied_ my new temp
>file to the place where my old temp was, and renamed it to as the older
temp
>(tried to make control file fool), it didn't work either. any suggestions??
>do i sound too retarded?
>