Re: What's in PGA ?

Frédéric,

This may be a long shot, but have you got PL/SQL tables in use?

They extend forever in a heap unless you use DBMS_SESSION.FREE_UNUSED_US ER_MEMORY. My experience is that use of this call uses so much CPU it outweighs the advantages of using PL/SQL tables.

Cheers,

John Thomas
Oracle development DBA

In article <F001.004A784D.20020731084837_at_fatcity.com>, Frédéric MAJOR <frederic.major_at_sydel.fr> writes
>Hi,
>
>Oracle : 7.3.4.5.0
>OS : AIX 4.3.3
>
>I have a PL/SQL code of statistics (hours of execution).
>The server process created by Oracle take more and more memory over the time
>by looking at v$sesstat about 'session pga memory' and OS with 'ps'.
>I am quite sure it is a bug in our program, but my question is
> What is in PGA ?
> How can we know the size of each element with v$... views ?
>Thanks for your support.
>
>Cordialement,
>Frédéric Major
>DBA
>
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