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Pepper spray? I would feel much safer with a good Springfield rifle by my
side.
I'm not sure that a can of pepper spray can stop a 700 lbs animal, charging
at
30 MPH, armed with 2" teeth and 5" claws. On short distances, a bear can
outrun
a deer.
-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBAReceived on Mon Sep 29 2003 - 11:59:40 CDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On
> Behalf Of Orr, Steve
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:45 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: x$ constructs and memory
>
>
> > What happens when these x$constructs begin to consume large
> > amounts of memory? Is there an upper bound?
> Dan, can you think of a scenario where X$ constructs could
> consume enough memory that DBA marmots like us should
> meditate on them?
>
> OT: Are there many grizzlies in CO? There are plenty here in
> MT and I always take my pepper spray with me whenever if go
> to the mountain top to comtemplate things Oracle and
> otherwise. Got within 100 yards of one and I saw him but he
> didn't see me.
>
>
> Steve Orr
> Bozeman, Montana
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:45 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> You should have asked a grizzly bear. They're much wiser
> then marmots and they don't run away that easily. Also, when
> you see a grizzly bear 100ft away from you and realize that
> you only have a camera with you, then you begin to understand
> that there are bigger worries in this world then the location
> of database structures. What a grizzly would tell you is
> that, according to my sources, those tables are stored in
> the "misc" area of shared pool, which can easily be seen
> when selected * from V$SGASTAT. Here is what a grizzly would
> have in mind:
> POOL NAME BYTES
> ----------- -------------------------- ----------
> shared pool 1M buffer 2098176
> shared pool KGLS heap 4102928
> shared pool PX subheap 76920
> shared pool parameters 32796
> shared pool free memory 101833708
> shared pool PL/SQL DIANA 1028660
> shared pool FileOpenBlock 3476816
> shared pool PL/SQL MPCODE 547852
> shared pool library cache 30858108
> shared pool miscellaneous 11656764
> shared pool pl/sql source 2708
>
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com]
> On Behalf
> > Of Daniel Fink
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:10 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: x$ 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
> >
> --
> Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
> --
> Author: Orr, Steve
> INET: sorr_at_rightnow.com
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