If you are lucky, you learn something new each day. Especially from this list. Adar Yechiel Rechovot, Israel Tanel Poder wrote:
Hi Adar,The extent pointers are cached in regular Oracle instances too, as otherwise you'd need way too many OCI RPC calls to ASM instance when doing physical reads. The allocation is seen as "ASM extent pointer array" in shared pool / v$sgastat.
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