Re: dbms_shared_pool.keep

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:13:25 +0200
Message-ID: <4a0dbedc$0$195$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>



Mladen Gogala schreef:
> Today, I noticed a performance problem on one of my databases. Statspack
> was showing quite a few of library cache waits. Most of the waiting
> sessions were trying to execute the same procedure and the problem was
> alleviated to significant degree by pinning the the package that contains
> the offending procedure, as well as all of the other PL/SQL objects
> belonging to FLOWS_03000.
> Trouble is, I distinctly remember rading an article claiming that using
> DBMS_SHARED_POOL.KEEP is not good, that it is, in fact, obsolete. I can't
> locate the article so I will ask anyone who thinks that I shouldn't have
> done what I did, to explain me why? In other words, am I missing something
> or not? I have sufficient free memory, no danger of 4031 in the near
> future.
>
>
>

AFAIK, pinning those packages is a well known way to speed up APEX.

IIWIW Shakespeare Received on Fri May 15 2009 - 14:13:25 CDT

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