From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Jun 6 13:24:36 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j56IOab0029003 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:24:36 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j56IOZNi028999 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:24:36 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 275D41BB803; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:21:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25026-02; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:21:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 97C1C1BBBC0; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:21:25 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=MWb8+nt2tLmbYRksgG5hfzmBvGUt5iYCEkMaJJztjldXbQBpiC27yPF07nLw+dPJaGUZ0frxeAvuOI68VSMfJl60zvkwrMTbZiAhwrEAapyuLRsuGMykddEHyoKVfzTpiY7TneLIFRWpm1KnFAe0Fybz98tW0WbHgdIF4L8T0t4= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:19:35 -0700 From: Jared Still To: Barbara Baker Subject: Re: LMT Autoallocate initial, tot # of extents Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org In-Reply-To: <47a6f72b05060610165c719577@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain References: <47a6f72b050606091954e0f98c@mail.gmail.com> <47a6f72b05060610165c719577@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 20702 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jkstill@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: jkstill@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 Ah, that's why I included the IIRC on the INITIAL size; too lazy to go look it up. ;) Have you checked on MetaLink for possible bugs in a version you are using? 9204 is no longer the 'latest and greatest'. Jared On 6/6/05, Barbara Baker wrote: > > Thanks, Jared! I missed that ref in the archives. It looks like > exactly what's happening to me. > > However, in my research, I saw references that lead me to believe > there might be some way to change the behavior. From a Tom Kyte > column "LMT's take the initial,next, minextents, pctincrease to figure > out how much to initially allocate and allocate that much. . . . . > if you start empty and grow -- it'll adjust. If you say "give me > big", it'll start big" > > and this one from Jonathan Lewis: "normal behaviour pattern is 16 x > 64K extents before switching to 1mb extents, but if you're importing > large objects with a large 'initial' size, or if your DDL requests a > large initial size, then Oracle can skip the smaller size extents and > leap straight in to 1mb, or even 1m extents." > > In either case, I can't see how to "make it big" > > Thx. > > Barb > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l