"Oradba Linux" <oradba_linux_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.11.24.19.03.32.530839_at_attbi.com>...
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:07:44 +0000, yls177 wrote:
>
> > i am on sap. and drop a tablespace through sapdba.
> >
> > SAPDBA: ORACLE has obviously not released the filesystem space of
> > 17811928 K(Before: 5453816 K, Now: 5453828 K, 100 K reserve for log
> > info, ...).This sluggish behavior is well known. It will take a few
> > minutes or a DB reboot to release all the space!
> >
> > and i checked my vg, lv... the space did not increase.
> >
> > i need to do a restart of oracle to get back the used space?
>
> I have seen this happen sometimes . It is with Unix and open files .
> Sometimes when you delete a file from Unix with some process
> still writing to it , the space does not get released . It has
> something to do with inodes .
thanks.. so one of the ways to see these space is to bounce the database?
Received on Mon Nov 24 2003 - 23:02:42 CST
