RE: "session param valu" in x$ksmlru

The reason I speculated that these are freeabl is because in Steve Adams book, the definition of freeable is that "Chunks contain objects that are normally needed for the duration of a session call, and are freed thereafter ...". Let's see if Steve has some time to clarify this.

Amir
-----Original Message-----
From: Radoulov, Dimitre [mailto:cichomitiko_at_gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:37 AM To: ORACLE-L
Cc: Hameed, Amir
Subject: Re: "session param valu" in x$ksmlru

>> It seems that these cause a lot of flushes. Are these chunks of type
>> "freeable"?
>
> The session param values (memory allocated at the start of each
session)
> are large contiguous allocations.
> Once the regular pool is chunked up into 4K or smaller pieces large
> allocations should come from reserved pool.
> So, if you get ORA-04031 for an allocation such as this, the solution
is
> usually to increase the size of the reserved pool.

I *think* these allocations are not freeable as long as the session is "alive".
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards,
Dimitre  

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