RE: OPEN_CURSORS and SHARED_POOL_SIZE

According to one of the messages I saw today in the list there is a connection.
The message said that each SQL open a cursor and that cursor stay open until the next SQL come from the user.
As you increase the share pool size more SQL's are retained in memory so their cursors will stay open and you will need more cursors.

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
adary_at_mehish.co.il

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirsch, Walter J (Northrop Grumman) [SMTP:walter.kirsch-eds_at_eds.com]
> Sent: Thu, February 28, 2002 7:59 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: OPEN_CURSORS and SHARED_POOL_SIZE
>
> SysAdmin of production system has increased shared_pool_size from 20MByte
> to
> 110Mbyte to "correct" a shared pool size error. Shortly after, he began
> seeing "too many open cursors" while trying to login via the front-end
> (Silverstream).
>
> RTFM says
>
> To take advantage of additional memory available for shared SQL areas, you
> may
> also need to increase the number of cursors permitted for a session. You
> can
> do this
> by increasing the value of the initialization parameter OPEN_CURSORS.
>
> But there's no causal relationship between increasing shared_pool_size and
> the open_cursors error, is there?
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