In article <3896f660.2512817921_at_news.interpath.net>,
ghubert_at_skillspoint.com (Gene Hubert) wrote:
> In the days of Oracle 7.x I remember that auto-coalesce of free
> extents only happened if the pctincrease for a tablespace was
> non-zero. Does anyone know if this is still true? All I could find
> in the 8.0.5 docs was the following:
>
> ---
> By default, SMON (system monitor) processes incrementally
> coalesce the free extents of tablespaces in the background. If
> desired, you can disable SMON coalescing.
> ---
>
> I've always created tablespaces with pctincrease of 1 to enable
> coalescing but am wondering if this makes any difference now.
>
I believe it is still true; however, you can manually coalesce using
the alter tablespace x coalesce command which will work even with a
pctincrease of zero on the tablespace.
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