RE: "Headroom" in datafiles?

  • From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ChrisDavid.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:38:08 -0400

Chris,
 
    I don't really worry about datafiles that get "too full".  What I do
worry about is an object that can't allocate an extent within the
tablespace.
 

Dick Goulet 
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead 
PAREXEL International 

 

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Taylor, Chris David
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:27 AM
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Subject: "Headroom" in datafiles?


I'm curious how much "headroom" people like to maintain in their
datafiles?  We have a large data reorganization procedure underway as
part of our DR discovery process and I was playing around with some
ideas.
 
I was thinking, we could allocate a fixed size for each datafile (say
32G for example) and not worry about space or autoextend until we
reached some threshold.
OR
I could fix each datafile to have 10% free space at all times
OR
something similar.
 
I think what bothers me is knowing that some of my datafiles are "99%"
full for example while others are 5% full in the same database.
 
Do any of you get bothered by datafiles being a certain % "full"?
 
We've got gobs of disk space "right now" so I've been pushing this to
the back burner for a while for coming up with a cohesive policy on
datafiles.
 
Thoughts?
 
Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205
Office: 615-517-3355
Cell: 615-354-4799
Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 

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