i think there are memory structurse that oracle isnt telling us about. wouldnt surprise me if the x$ tables are stored in some place that is not documented.
>
> From: "Mladen Gogala" <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
> Date: 2003/09/29 Mon PM 02:24:46 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: RE: x$ constructs and memory
>
> With all due respect, I don't believe that it is a fixed area.
> You can create X$ tables by running certain catalog scripts. I believe
> that the description of X$ tables is located logically close to the
> description of the data dictionary, which would mean shared pool, not
> the fixed one. Now, can we get back to bears?
>
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> Mladen Gogala
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> > From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On
> > Behalf Of Tanel Poder
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:45 PM
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> > Subject: Re: x$ constructs and memory
> >
> >
> > > What I have not checked so far is how an ALTER SYSTEM
> > increasing a
> > parameter affects the SGA. In practice it's a realloc()
> > (functionally speaking). It would seem reasonable to me to
> > have a shared memory segment to hold all parameters which can
> > by dynamically changed. I wouldn't touch it if parameters are
> > decreased, but I would have to realloc it in case of a
> > massive increase. Hmm, I guess that I would allow some spare
> > memory initially, performance penalty would otherwise be
> > severe. Which all makes the 10g dynamic rearrangement quite
> > sensible ...
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I think the behaviour depends on which parameter you are
> > changing. If you're changing shared_pool_size to higher size,
> > then just additional extents of memory are allocated and heap
> > header is updated. If you set sort_area_size higher, nothing
> > particular happens, except some maximum is increased in UGA I
> > believe and during next sort you can go up to that limit.
> > Some parameters like enqueue_resources can't be changed in
> > the fly, because they are fixed, they stay in fixed area of
> > SGA, fixed area isn't managed as heap as I understand, it
> > does not have any free or LRU lists, because it's physical
> > structure remains unchanged during the lifetime of an instance.
> >
> > Tanel.
> >
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