On 06/27/2006 08:12:07 AM, Lawie, Duncan wrote: > Charles, > > I agree that a row in x$ksmsp should equal a single memory chunk - but is it > possible that there is a chunk with an outrageous value? I don't recall that > particular case, but I have seen x$ksmsp sum to values significantly larger > than the size of the SGA. > > In addition, I have also had significant performance issues on a production > system when selecting on this table in a very busy system which is severely > fragmented. > > Cheers, > Duncan. > Guys, selecting from tables like that usually means to acquire a latch for each row. If the table points to the real chunks of SGA, those chunks must be protected from changing during select. Every one of them. That means latch. I don't see any pressing need to use the table, especially not if the table is undocumented. I must say that Oracle10gR2 is marvelously instrumented and equipped with the documented performance tables. It misses just one thing: "run my stuff faster" parameter, which will probably be available in the next release as an undocumented parameter, will be tweaked by the bravest among us, causing, of course, ORA-0600 and ORA-7445 errors. Parameter will eventually become useful in the Oracle21R3. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l