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 > Uptime > Oracle Database Administrator > email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx > tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 > http://www.uptime.be > disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >