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    While executing a procedure, I am getting the 'snapshot too old...' error --

    SQL> exec sms.computeloadterminaltm
    begin sms.computeloadterminaltm; end;

    *
    ERROR at line 1:
    ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 7 with name "RBS4" too small
    ORA-06512: at "SMS.COMPUTELOADTERMINALTM", line 24




    I don't think though that increasing the rollback size will help because there is plenty of space in the tablespace for the rollback to grow but the high-water mark shows that it's not extending beyond initial 2 extents (mening it does not need more space for rollback)

    The procedure involves a long group-by query that sends results into a table (insert into...)

    Any idea why this "snapshot..." error when there is room for rollback to grow ?

    Thanks,
    - Rajeev


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    Talking

    Make a new set of rollback segments with a big OPTIMAL value
    Hisham Nagia
    IT Manager For Development
    Oracle Consultant - OCP

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    you better set initial extents to at least 20. The size of tablespace is not the problem here, the problem is the extent in RBS4 which a transaction is using has been overwritten by another transaction while you were querying that extent.

    When a rollback segment grows, it does this circularly, if the next extent which it wants to extend to is occupied it must *spawn* another extent, if then the occupied extents is freed it will be eligible again to be overwritten by another transactions, now if a long query started just before the extent was freed and reaches the freed extent it will find an inconsistency because that extent would be overwritten by other transactions and causing SNAPSHOT TOO OLD error. To avoid this you need high number of initial extents and bigger size extents.

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    Thanks Pando and hnagia.
    For a DSS system which of the following Rollback segment configuration do you think is better and why ?

    inital : 200M
    next : 10M
    minimum : 1
    optimal 300M (or should it be 200M)

    Or

    inital : 10MB
    next : 10MB
    minimum : 20
    optimal 300M

    Thanks,
    - Rajeev

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    For a great explanation, check out [url]http://osi.oracle.com/wa/ask/owa/ask_tom_pkg.display?p_dispid=275215756923[/url]
    Jeff Hunter

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    Thanks marist,
    that site was really helpful.

    - Rajeev

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