Re: PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET cannot be unset without a restart

  • From: Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:37:23 -0700

Hemant,
Have you checked MetaLink for possible bugs?

I did quite a bit of testing of this on 9.2.0.3, and don't recall any 
difficulties
in configuring this dynamically.

Jared


oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/29/2004 07:53:07 AM:

> 
> I have a number of 9.2 databases.  I had gradually begun
> using PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET and WORKAREA_POLICY and was comfortable with 
them.
> However, the last database I switched to using P_A_T and W_P
> doesn't perform very well.  This has a very high rate of
> connect/disconnects [11 to 18 per second][
> we can discuss why I don't use connection pooling / shared
> server etc seperately] and P_A_T sometimes results in
> some sessions with extremely high process sizes.
> Apparently, the dynamic recomputation of Target Memory
> isn't fast enough and the Oracle Kernel seems to be
> getting false values.
> 
> I was able to change WORKAREA_POLICY back to MANUAL with
> an ALTER SYSTEM command but P_A_T, once set to any value
> cannot be set back to 0.  Even though W_P is now MANUAL,
> the database instance still seems to be using P_A_T.
> I can only try reducing P_A_T but the process sizes indicate
> that it is being used.
> 
> Has anyone come across similar behaviour ?
> 
> This is 9.2.0.2RAC on Tru64.
> 
> Hemant K Chitale
> Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Professional
> http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital
> 


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