Sorry 4 or 5 gigabytes not uncommon 11g 256 meg min siZe seems way way off Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:01 AM, John Hurley <hurleyjohnb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just presented at Hotsos three approaches to shared pool monitoring can > send to you. Looks like you probably want 4 fb shared pool on each node or > more at minimum not uncommon 11g me not a big fan of all the auto dynamic > stuff > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:45 AM, "Uzzell, Stephan" <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> We recently had an issue with an undersized shared pool. We’ve increase the >> size of the shared pool and think this should be resolved. Our customer, >> however, is freaking out and wants to monitor this. >> >> I’ve been looking at v$sgastat hoping this would provide the information, >> but I don’t quite understand how the view works. Testing against 11.2.0.3.7 >> on OEL6x64. >> >> Shared_pool_size is set at 256MB for each instance in this RAC. Yet when I >> try to sum up either the free memory value or the non-free values, I get >> results far larger than that: >> >> SQL> select >> 2 type >> 3 , round( sum( bytes /1024 /1024 ) ) MB >> 4 from >> 5 ( >> 6 select >> 7 case when name = 'free memory' then 'FREE' else 'USED' >> end type >> 8 , bytes >> 9 from >> 10 v$sgastat >> 11 where >> 12 pool = 'shared pool' >> 13 ) >> 14 group by >> 15 type >> 16 / >> >> TYPE MB >> ---- ---------- >> USED 3760 >> FREE 1744 >> >> Am I completely misunderstanding how this is supposed to work? Is there some >> way to monitor shared pool usage? >> >> Stephan Uzzell >>