Wayne,
Have you tried the DROP_SEGMENTS event?  See the
following metalink docs:
Note: 1070504.6 "HOW TO FORCE TEMPORARY SEGMENT
CLEANUP IN ORACLE 8.X.X"
Note: 47400.1 "EVENT: DROP_SEGMENTS - Forcing cleanup
of TEMPORARY segments"
HTH,
  -   Anita
  
    -   "Bellefeuille, Wayne S"
<Wayne.Bellefeuille_at_allina.com> wrote:
 > The problem is not the TEMP tablespace.  Rather, the
 > index rebuild is
 > failing on finding "temp segment" space in the
 > index's tablespace.  This
 > is because SMON doesn't seem to be cleaning the temp
 > segments after the
 > prior index's rebuild is done, and eventually, the
 > rebuild of the
 > indexes fails.  However, when I restart the process
 > in a few minutes,
 > the index that failed before works now, but a
 > different index (or
 > partition) fails.  This seems to point to SMON not
 > working fast enough
 > to clean out the temp segments before the next
 > index's rebuild starts.
 >
 > The "wake smon" script worked great in 8.0 to fix
 > this problem, but
 > doesn't seem to work (or at least work fast enough)
 > in 8i.
 >
 > Is there anything that can be done?
 >
 > Wayne
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:00 AM
 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 >
 >
 > Have you tried setting the TEMP tablespaces
 > PCTINCREASE value to 1 and
 > then
 > to 0 again?
 >
 > Mark
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > Bellefeuille, Wayne S
 > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 13:15
 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 >
 >
 > This is the one I am running.  It just doesn't seem
 > to be doing the
 > trick in 8i, where it worked fine for 8.0.  Is that
 > possible?  Or do I
 > need to look elsewhere for my temp segment problem?
 >
 > Wayne
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:05 PM
 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 >
 >
 > Steve Adams has a script, but I don't know if it
 > works 8i
 >
 > http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/sql/post_smon.sql
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:56 PM
 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 >
 >
 > Back in 8.0 days, we were running into space
 > problems for temp segments
 > while rebuilding indexes on our large partitioned
 > tables.  Someone on
 > this list suggested that we use the "wake SMON"
 > approach, which
 > essentially running the following command from
 > svrmgrl:  noradebug
 > wakeup <smon_pid>.
 >
 > This worked great.  However, now that we have moved
 > to 8i, we have
 > started getting the temp segments space problem
 > again.  That is, this
 > command doesn't seem to be doing its job anymore.
 >
 > Any ideas?
 >
 > Wayne Bellefeuille
 
 
 
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