Re: SGA and extent

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:56:48 +0100
Message-ID: <3BC35680.4264@yahoo.com>

Thierry wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have two questions :
>
> - Is th SGA blocked in Real Memory i.e. not paged ?
> - why extent is said to be contiguous oracle blocks ? ( on a filesystem we
> can't know where are th filesystem blocks )
>
> Thanks in advance ...

The extents from *Oracle* perspective are contiguous - something is most unlikely to be case within the file system. Veritas Volume Manager (v3.3?) allows you to push the file system to attempt to layout files contiguously...

hth
connor

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