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need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462254]

Wed, 23 June 2010 05:25

ultgnp
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Hi Friends,

I am trying to tune a report. I ran the report couple of times. I then created an index and the report is super fast now. I know that the recently run queries are in shared pool, so the query might run fast. Could anyone please tell me how to flush data out of shared_pool manually everytime before i run the report.

I saw a command "Alter system flush shared_pool". Is this the only command? Please suggest.

Best Regards,
Atiq

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462263 is a reply to message #462254]

Wed, 23 June 2010 05:40

Michel Cadot
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Quote:

know that the recently run queries are in shared pool, so the query might run fast

This is only part true. Oracle just omit the parsing phase as it already has the execution plan in memory but it still executes the statement.
And it may be faster because some blocks are already loaded in buffer cache.

In 8i, you cannot flush the buffer cache, you can only flush the shared pool, this mean you can just ask Oracle to forget all about metadata but not about data.

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Michel

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462269 is a reply to message #462263]

Wed, 23 June 2010 05:54

ultgnp
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Thanks Michel,

As i am working on development machine, can i restart the system so that all the buffer cache is freed? Is it possible?

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462278 is a reply to message #462269]

Wed, 23 June 2010 06:18

Michel Cadot
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Yes, you can restart the instance (no need to restart the whole server).

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Michel

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462284 is a reply to message #462254]

Wed, 23 June 2010 06:25

ultgnp
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http://www.orafaq.com/forum/r/prev_loaded/1/152909/ has very good description of this issue.

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462290 is a reply to message #462284]

Wed, 23 June 2010 07:07

Michel Cadot
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Your link is wrong.

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Michel

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462306 is a reply to message #462290]

Wed, 23 June 2010 08:15

ultgnp
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/03-jul/o43asktom.html

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462310 is a reply to message #462306]

Wed, 23 June 2010 08:20

cookiemonster
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You realise the linked article says flushing the pool is a total waste of time?

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Re: need help to clear buffer pool (merged) [message #462314 is a reply to message #462310]

Wed, 23 June 2010 08:32

ultgnp
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Yes, I learnt a new lesson today.

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