Oracle-L: RE: Space... confusion

From: April Wells <awells_at_csedge.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:50:06 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004E616C.20021010115006@fatcity.com>

At the OS level, the files are 4000 meg. If they are created sparse, would it show at the OS level?

April Wells
Oracle DBA
Keep yourself well oiled with life, laughter, new ideas and action. Otherwise you will rust out. _Anonymous

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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Are you using tempfiles ?

Just a hypothesis: Tempfiles are created sparse, so you ask for 100M, but in reality only 1M might be allocated. As people sort, you actually start needing the 100M and kapow!

hth
connor

April Wells <awells_at_csedge.com> wrote: > Please forgive the cross postings, but I am hoping
> that someone in all of
> the sets of eyes that see this might have an idea I
> haven't thought of.
> ***
> Facts
> **************************************
> aix 4.3.3
> oracle 9.0.1.3
> new instance, up for 2 weeks
> locally managed tablespaces
> nothing with autoextend on
> file system at 7:01 am was at 98%
> 12:00 altered index tablespaces to nologging (but
> this did not change the
> file sizes... checked)
> 12:30 users (it is not a transactional instance...
> it is strictly reporting)
> started getting Ora-01114 errors corresponding
> (roughly) to when the file
> system hit 100%
> The only thing in the file system are database files
> Nothing "could" have changed at OS level in that
> time..........to my
> knowledge
> ITAR open, not much progress (re... "that can't
> happen")
> ****************************************************
>
> DID happen... now trying desperately to find out WHY
> it happened. The
> 'problem' effected our biggest client. I need to
> find out what happened so
> it doesn't happen again...
>
> File system now at 92%, but will need to add dasd in
> the near future for
> growth
>
> one interesting finding found in the digging
> 9i created files of 2000m are 2097168384 k at os
> level
> 8i created and upgraded to 9i files of 2000m are
> 2097156096 at os level...
>
> Anybody have any ideas how something that can't
> happen, did? Anyone ever
> seen this kind of weirdness before?
>
>
> April Wells
> Oracle DBA
> Keep yourself well oiled with life, laughter, new
> ideas and action.
> Otherwise you will rust out. _Anonymous
>
>
>

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