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Thread: Over 20,000 'opened cursors current'!

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    I'm working on a database system where the 'open cursors current' (from V$SYSSTAT) just keeps on increasing. Currently after 3 days we've got over 20,000 open cursors.
    (note: We're using Oracle 8).

    We're using connection pooling so some of the users will logged on for several days.

    When I look at v$open_cursor it says that there are only 250 open cursors.

    What's the difference between the stats from v$open_cursor and those from V$SYSSTAT?

    We do tend to notice a performance deteriation after about a week. I'm guessing that the number of open cursors gradually eats up resources.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    v$sysstat is comulative!!!

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    That would explain a lot. But there are two parameters in v$sysstat :-

    STATICTIC#

    2 : 'open cursors cumulative' = 293812

    3 : 'open cursors current' = 18863

    What is the difference between these two values?

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    http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/...p_id=48871.996


    The primary difference is that 'opened cursors current' includes dynamic cursors opened, but not parsed, while v$open_cursor includes dynamic cursors that are opened AND parsed. An opened cursor counts against the statistic 'opened cursors current' whether it is parsed or not.

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    Smile

    Thanks for that.

    I guess our performance problems must be somewhere else.

    If only we didn't have any users, then the performance is fine.

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