Re: buffer cache and shared pool size tuning

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:14:16 -0800

I've used the attached scripts to query v$db_cache_advice
and v$shared_pool_advice.

I have not done any testing to verify the accuracy of the
claims of the cache advice, but have found the v$advice
tables to be useful.

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
Home Page: http://jaredstill.com



On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:58 AM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a situation in which the application vendor is asking to increase
> the buffer cache size to resolve a performance issue, pointing to the
> advisories from the dbconsole.
> Although I have already proved via tracing that the problem is mainly in
> the queries and schema design, and that even if we cached everything we
> still would not be able to get the requested response times, they are still
> pointing to the advisory.
> All this asside, it made me wonder what would be a good method to verify if
> the buffer cache is correctly sized?
> Same question for the shared pool.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Freek D'Hooge
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