Re: Automatic Segment Space Management

Jay,

I have been using ASSM for last five months in our Datawarehouse environment. Haven't had a chance to play with the OLTP side, yet.

Inserts are way faster as compared to system managed extent allocation. I read Don's article on DBAZINE. However, I would like to add one caveat here: ASSM does not *eliminate* buffer busy waits as the article claims; it *reduces* them. BBW occur due to concurrent access to a buffer by more than one session. This will be the case regardless of number of freelists. While ASSM eliminates the freelist contention - thereby reducing BBW in inserts - it does not reduce the likelihood that more than one sessions will try to get the same block to the buffer cache simulataneously.

Table drops appear a little slower in ASSM; but that could be wrong - I never timed dropping a table in the system managed mode.

HTH. Arup Nanda

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