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I have been trying to run a "benchmark" of a server 
[9iRel2 on HPUX]
The database is 9.2.0.2 with Extent Management Local and
an Undo Tablespace.  
This is my table :
create table txn_table
(setrange number(2) not null,
    col1         varchar2(6),
    col2         varchar2(255),
    col3         number,
    col4         varchar2(45),
create index txn_table_setnumber_n1
on txn_table(setrange);
create index txn_table_update_dt_n1
on txn_table(update_date);
{SETRANGE will have values 0 to 5 and I am deliberately indexing this column to see if the database uses the index or does a FTS)
The INSERT of 1 million records took 02:21.86 [2min] :
DECLARE
BEGIN
FOR i IN 1..100000 LOOP
  IF MOD(i,5) = 0 THEN      -- multiple of 5
     INSERT INTO txn_table VALUES (mod(i,5), to_char(i), 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog',i*2.4,'multiple of 5 ',sysdate);
  ELSE
     INSERT INTO txn_table VALUES (mod(i,5),to_char(i)||' ','zxcv.,mnbasdfgf;lkjhjqwertpoiuyu',i*3-4,'not a multiple',sysdate);
  END IF;
END LOOP;
However, my Update initially ran out of Undo Tablespace which had grown to 2GB. I found that UNDO_RETENTION was 10800, reduced it to 30 and even bounced the Instance before re-running the Update. [I had also added 2 more files to the Undo Tablespace]. During the first round of testing, another user was testing a WebMethods application. However, during the second round I was supposed to be the only person on the instance [with OEM connecting as DBSNMP, other than my SQLPlus session]. Yet, the update failed and all three Undo Tablespace files had grown to 2GB each.
Why should the update take 5hours ? Why should it take some much undo ? Is the logic of the update plsql block wrong ? [I haven't put a c1%notfound ; I am using rowid from the fetch to go back to the table and update it]
17:13:00 SQL> set serveroutput on size 50000;
17:13:00 SQL> 
17:13:00 SQL> DECLARE
17:13:00   2  
17:13:00   3  CURSOR C1 is
17:13:00   4  SELECT SETRANGE,COL1,COL2, rowid
17:13:00   5  from TXN_TABLE;
17:13:00   6  
17:13:00   7  
17:13:00   8  P_SN   number;
17:13:00   9  P_C1   varchar2(6);
17:13:00  10  P_C2   varchar2(255);
17:13:00  11  P_D    varchar2(15);
17:13:00  12  P_Row  rowid;
17:13:00  13  
17:13:00  14  cntr   number;
17:13:00  15  
17:13:00  16  BEGIN
17:13:00  17  cntr := 0;
17:13:00  18  OPEN C1;
17:13:00  19    loop
17:13:00  20    FETCH  C1 into P_SN, P_C1, P_C2, P_Row ;
17:13:00  21      update txn_table set col4 = 'updated'||to_char(mod(p_sn,5)),
17:13:00  22               update_date = sysdate
17:13:00  23               where rowid = P_Row ;
17:13:00  24  
17:13:00  25    if cntr = 1000000 then
17:13:00  26      dbms_output.put_line('exiting ...');
17:13:00  27      exit;
17:13:00  28    end if;
17:13:00  29    end loop;
17:13:00  30  
17:13:00  31  COMMIT;
17:13:00  32  END;
17:13:00  33  /
Elapsed: 05:31:09.32
22:44:09 SQL> 
22:44:09 SQL> spool off
 1* select usn, extents, rssize, xacts, writes, gets, optsize, hwmsize
SQL> /
       USN    EXTENTS     RSSIZE      XACTS     WRITES       GETS    OPTSIZE
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
HWMSIZE
0 7 450560 0 8460 2052885 450560
1 2 122880 0 230880 2056248 7462912
2 2 122880 0 1844253864 2815995 4234141696
3 3 8511488 0 292502 2061328 8511488
4 3 1171456 0 270352 2057293 1171456
5 3 1171456 0 235868 2056307 2220032
6 3 1171456 0 239234 2056328 2220032
       USN    EXTENTS     RSSIZE      XACTS     WRITES       GETS    OPTSIZE
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
HWMSIZE
7 3 1171456 0 350606 2058513 2220032
8 3 1171456 0 285134 2056422 1171456
9 2 122880 0 237370 14800561 2416041984
10 2 122880 0 237826 2056313 67231744
11 rows selected.
SQL> exit
SQL> show parameter undo
NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
undo_management string AUTO undo_retention integer 30 undo_suppress_errors boolean FALSE undo_tablespace string UNDOTBS1
Hemant K Chitale
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