Do not use uniform sized LMTs for volatile tables since you may end up having a table/index with thousand of extents.. More important, don't blame LMTs for it..=20 If you use AUTO extent allocation instead of uniform size, you won't have problem... Thanks, =20 Ibrahim DOGAN Sr. Sybase/Oracle DBA www.lowes.com > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfson=20 > Larry - lwolfs > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 12:24 AM > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: LOCALLY MANAGED EXTENT PERFORMANCE >=20 >=20 > Hi guys! > =09 > Anyone seen any issues with large locally mananged extents? >=20 > Recently I noticed one of my applications taking a long=20 > time to do truncates. > =09 > And an index rebuild where I increased the locally=20 > managed extent size from 16K took almost an hour for 58,000=20 > extents when larger indexes (and extents) only took 3-4 minutes. >=20 > I once had a purchased app using a 16K extent size for=20 > huge tables took 2 hours and 7 minutes to do a truncate on=20 > just one table (dictionary managed). I killed it the first=20 > time after 45 minutes cause I thought it was hung up somewhere else. > Not sure why it was set to 16K in the first place. =20 > Good for testing I guess. >=20 > Thanks > Larry >=20 > =09 >=20 >=20 > ********************************************************************** > The information contained in this communication is=20 > confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient=20 > named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of=20 > this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby=20 > notified that any dissemination,=20 > distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly=20 > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error,=20 > please re-send this communication to the sender and delete=20 > the original message or any copy of it from your computer=20 > system. Thank You. >=20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l