Re: wrong setting of sort_area_size

From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:06:05 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002F98ED.20010504075022@fatcity.com>

Mininmal disadvantages besides overextending the machine's memory...eg if 100 people are all doing a large sort at the SAME time, you could have 100 x 10m of memory or more getting munch up...But the memory is only used when they want to do a sort ...

hth
connor

• CC Harvest <ccharvest_at_yahoo.com> wrote: > we had a customer of the sort_area_size=10000000
  > in their database, the temp table space is 256MB,
  > the
  > db_block_size is 8k. They have some performance
  > problem, I think it's probably related to the
  > setting
  > of sort_area_size(we have only one user). So what's
  > the benefits/disadvantage of too big sort_area_size?
  >
  > Thanks,
  >
  > Chris
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