Re: shared pool subpool

Without knowing more details about your application it would be difficult for us  to come to a conclusion. However to answer your question, the memory management of shared(sub) pools is similar to shared pool with LRU lists and reserved lists.

To workaround this issue, you may want to reduce the number of subpools by setting _kghdsidix_count parameter.  We have a short discussion about inner workings of shared (sub) pools in our OWI book. Search in metalink for the above parameter and you may (!) hit some bugs for your version.:)

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----- Original Message ----
From: eagle fan <eagle.f@gmail.com>
To: oracle-l@freelists.org
Sent: Monday, 23 October, 2006 9:26:55 PM
Subject: shared pool subpool

hi:

My database version is 9.2.0.5. The share pool still has 115M free memory.

POOL        NAME                                  BYTES

----------- -------------------------- ----------------

shared pool free memory                     115,596,712



But from x$ksmss, the free memory of one subpool only has 5M

SQL> select * from x$ksmss where ksmssnam='free memory';

ADDR                   INDX    INST_ID   KSMSSLEN KSMSSNAM                     KSMDSIDX

---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------------------------- ----------
000000010382A6D0          0          1    5190392 free memory                         1
000000010382A6D0         38          1   49780448 free memory                         2

000000010382A6D0         76          1   38853392 free memory                         3
000000010382A6D0        114          1   21255952 free memory                         4

And this subpool contiguously flush out chunks and caused a lot of hard parses(from x$kghlu).


            RECURRENT  TRANSIENT    FLUSHED   PINS AND   ORA-4031 LAST ERROR
  KGHLUIDX     CHUNKS     CHUNKS     CHUNKS   RELEASES     ERRORS       SIZE
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

         4       1404       1658      27895  627992485          0          0
         3       1064       1866      21377   69010651          0          0
         2       1384       1887      20373   81774898          0          0

         1       1248       2536    1355842  437478666       5558      27224

Why the sql goes to the subpool which has very less free memory. What's the algorithm of subpool space management?


We have same experiences on many cases before, the only thing what we can do is set shared_pool_size to a bigger value and bounce the database.

I tried to search internet for more shared pool internal infomation, but only found very limited metarials.


Any ideas or metarials are appriciated.

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Oracle DBA

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