Re: Insert contention on RAC

  • From: "Rajeev Prabhakar" <rprabha01@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:28:10 -0400

Paul,

What is the extent size for the table which is experiencing such waits ?
Perhaps, small extent size is the underlying reason ?

Rajeev

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Baumgartel, Paul
<paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> No indexes at all; they're built after data population.
>
> I also didn't mention that each run starts with a newly-created table,
> thus the heavy HWM contention.
>
> Roman Podshivalov had a promising idea:  insert junk data beforehand to
> raise the HWM, then delete it and run the real thing.  There are several
> million rows, so a DELETE might be slow enough to erase any time savings
> in the run itself.  I thought of TRUNCATE...REUSE STORAGE, but the docs
> aren't clear about HWM; they say HWM is reset if there's more than one
> freelist, but don't mention what happens if there's only one freelist.
> Guess I'll just have to keep testing.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions.
>
>
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