RE: x$ constructs and memory

From: Robson, Peter <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:24:46 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D15F0.20030929072446@fatcity.com>

Dan -

I think you are in grave danger of forgetting the point of sitting on the top of mountains....

Either that or your Colorado mountains have nothing on our variety from the NW Highlands of Scotland... (grin!)

peter
edinburgh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Fink [mailto:Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:10 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: x$ constructs and memory
>
>
> I was sitting on a mountain here in Colorado, pondering Oracle
> optimization and an interesting scenario crossed my feeble mind.
> As I began to ponder this (I asked the resident marmot, but he
> must be a SQL*Server expert...), I came up with several
> questions.
>
> Where in memory (sga or other) do the x$ constructs reside?
> Some of them are 'populated' by reading file-based structures
> (control file, datafile headers, undo segments). Does this
> information reside in memory or is it loaded each time the x$
> construct is accessed?
> What happens when these x$constructs begin to consume large
> amounts of memory? Is there an upper bound?
>
> Daniel Fink
>

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