db_cache_size, granules and large amount of physical memory

  • From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle Mailinglist <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:16:34 +0200

Hi

I am working with several Sun M9000 servers, it looks like that
db_cache_size has quite large default values (even set to a low value) when
the server has a large amount of physical memory.

For example:

server 1 has 16 quadcore Sparc 960MHz with threading on so it shows 128 CPU,
with 512GB physicla memory
server 2 has 4 quadcore Sparc 960MHz with threading on so it shows 32 CPU,
with 128GB physicla memory

When db_cache_size is manually set to 64MB in server 1 it actually uses
512MB and server 2 128MB.

Is there anyway to decrease this default limit?


TIA

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LSC

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