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Clearing Blocks from Memory [message #165705]

Fri, 31 March 2006 14:14

scottwmackey
Messages: 515
Registered: March 2005

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Let's say I run the following query:

SELECT col1
FROM   t
WHERE  group = 1

Let's say that the table has several million rows and the count for the query returns 20K. The first time I run it, it returns in about 3 seconds. The second time and every time after that, it returns in about 0.5 second. I know that that is because the data blocks have already been read into memory (is it the SGA?) so that subsequent queries do not have to do disk I/O. If I wait a while for other people to perform queries and push these out of memory, my query will take 3 seconds again to retrieve 20K rows. So my question is, Is there are way to clear out the memory to see how long a query would take to perform "fresh"?

ALTER SYSTEM FLUSH SHARED_POOL

doesn't seem to have an effect. We need to verify that the query will be under 3 seconds and the vast majority of the query where clauses will be run once and only once so we will not benefit from the block being stored in memory.

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Re: Clearing Blocks from Memory [message #165818 is a reply to message #165705]

Sun, 02 April 2006 06:06

Mahesh Rajendran
Messages: 10708
Registered: March 2002
Location: oracleDocoVille

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What is Oracle version/OS?
Did you already try this?

scott@9i >  select count(*) from emp where job='MANAGER';

Elapsed: 00:00:00.92

Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
          0  recursive calls
          0  db block gets
       2706  consistent gets
          0  physical reads
          0  redo size
        493  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        655  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          2  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          0  sorts (memory)
          0  sorts (disk)
          1  rows processed

scott@9i > alter session set events 'immediate trace name flush_cache';

Session altered.

Elapsed: 00:00:19.58
scott@9i >  select count(*) from emp where job='MANAGER';

Elapsed: 00:00:01.24

Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
          0  recursive calls
          0  db block gets
       2706  consistent gets
       2701  physical reads
          0  redo size
        493  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        655  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          2  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          0  sorts (memory)
          0  sorts (disk)
          1  rows processed

Regards

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Re: Clearing Blocks from Memory [message #165829 is a reply to message #165818]

Sun, 02 April 2006 22:13

rleishman
Messages: 3728
Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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Superb!

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Re: Clearing Blocks from Memory [message #165882 is a reply to message #165705]

Mon, 03 April 2006 03:24

nmacdannald
Messages: 460
Registered: July 2005
Location: Stockton, California - US...

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Perhaps putting your table in the keep portion of the sga would help?
Neil.

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Re: Clearing Blocks from Memory [message #165906 is a reply to message #165882]

Mon, 03 April 2006 04:43

madhusunkara
Messages: 59
Registered: March 2006
Location: hyderabad,india

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put the table in recycle pool

you can flush the buffer cache in newer verions of oracle with out bouncing but it will effect other queries also

Regards
Madhu

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