Jonathan: I have also seen this in couple of cases earlier (with non ASSM tablespace also). I suspect this could be a bug. The variable part of the datablock can not exceed 50% of the block size and in practice we don't need to allocate more 'itc' than 'nrows'. That is a total waste of space, KG On 11/25/05, Jonathan Lewis <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I saw your post on AskTom, and followed that one up > before I got this. But in direct answer to your question. > It IS possible to get itc > maxtrans on TABLES (because > of the oddity I describe in the note on AskTom), so > maybe it can happen on indexes too. > > Regards > > Jonathan Lewis > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html > The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/cbo_book/ind_book.html > Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/appearances.html > Public Appearances - schedule updated 4th Nov 2005 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sami Seerangan" <dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "oracle list" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 9:47 PM > Subject: ITC value is higher than MAXTRANS for index blocks > > > Dear All, > > Env: > Oracle 9.2.0.6 3-Node RAC,Sun OS 2.9 > Block size 16K > At this point we took block dump for an index using below statement; > select 'alter system dump datafile 9 block min '||c1||' block max '||c2||';' > from (select block_id c1,(block_id + blocks-1) c2 from dba_extents > where segment_name='T1_PK') > SQL> / > > 'ALTERSYSTEMDUMPDATAFILE9BLOCKMIN'||C1||'BLOCKMAX'||C2||';' > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > alter system dump datafile 9 block min 23889 block max 23896; > > > The block dump shows ITC value as 255 for 3 out of 8 blocks even though the > maxtrans value > is defined as 4. > > Question: > Is it possible to have ITC value higher than MAXTRANS value? > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface, Oracle Press 2004 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l