RE: How does Oracle set the High Water Mark?

  • From: Feighery Raymond <Raymond.Feighery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:43:37 -0000

Good answer.
On mine it's set to 0. I think this is a feature of Automatic Space Segment
Management (see other post).
Thanks
Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Gorman [mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:13 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How does Oracle set the High Water Mark?


Used to be controlled by a hidden parameter named:

PARAMETER                               DESCRIPTION          DFLT
--------------------------------------- -------------------- -----
_bump_highwater_mark_count          = 0 how many blocks      TRUE
                                        should we allocate
                                        per free list on
                                        advancing HW

And it used to default to 5.  But, on my 9.2.0.1 database, it doesn't appear
to have a default value at all.  If it is being calculated internally, then
on your database it seems to be 13, perhaps?



on 3/10/04 6:56 AM, Feighery Raymond at Raymond.Feighery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> Oracle 9.2.0.4 Solaris 8
> 
> How does Oracle set the HWM? In the example below, I create a table and
> insert one row. I would expect only one block to be used, instead Oracle
> seems to have pushed the HWM up to 13 blocks. I can imagine that this
might
> be done to "pre-mark" rows as used during bulk inserts, but how does
Oracle
> decide where to set the HWM?
> 
> SQL> select * from dba_tablespaces where tablespace_name = 'EXAMPLE';
> TABLESPACE_NAME BLOCK_SIZE INITIAL_EXTENT NEXT_EXTENT MIN_EXTENTS
> ------------------------------ ---------- -------------- -----------
> ----------- 
> MAX_EXTENTS PCT_INCREASE MIN_EXTLEN STATUS CONTENTS LOGGING FOR EXTENT_MAN
> ----------- ------------ ---------- --------- --------- --------- ---
> ---------- 
> ALLOCATIO PLU SEGMEN DEF_TAB_
> --------- --- ------ --------
> EXAMPLE 4096 65536 1
> 2147483645 65536 ONLINE PERMANENT LOGGING NO LOCAL
> SYSTEM NO AUTO DISABLED
> 
> SQL> create table t (col1 number(1));
> Table created. 
> SQL> analyze table t compute statistics;
> Table analyzed. 
> SQL> insert into t values(1);
> 1 row created. 
> SQL> commit; 
> Commit complete. 
> SQL> select blocks, empty_blocks from user_tables where table_name = 'T';
> BLOCKS EMPTY_BLOCKS
> ---------- ------------
> 0 16 
> SQL> analyze table t compute statistics;
> Table analyzed. 
> SQL> select blocks, empty_blocks from user_tables where table_name = 'T';
> BLOCKS EMPTY_BLOCKS
> ---------- ------------
> 13 3 
> 
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