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Thread: Parallel Processes

  1. #1
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    Can anyone tell me why parallel processes running, constantly increase to sometimes 30-60 Mb when I have the sort_area_size and sort_retainer_size both set to 10Mb.

    I thought that they shouldn't increase above 10Mb ?

  2. #2
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    It is not actual sort area for a process. For some reason OS uncludes part of SGA area in a process memory. You can sum up all the processes memory on a box and the result will be greater than total memory size on the box (phisical + virtual memory). Don't be afraid.

    Sergey.

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    if the query doesnt sort then sort area size wont be used at all, if the query is huge the PGA will be large consequently you see a process consuming high amount of memory. May be this is your case.

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