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Abstract
Script to determine the Number of Disk Sorts vs. Memory Sorts.   Document Details  

 
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SCRIPT
Status:
Product Name, Product Version Oracle Server, 7.3.x to 9.x PUBLISHED
Last Major
Aug 4, 2018
Update:
Mar 13, 2021
Platform Platform Independent Last Update:

Date Created 30-Apr-2001

   

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Description [2048297.2]

Index of Oracle Database

Many times a customer will want to know the number of memory sorts compared
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to disk sorts. This information is useful in tuning database performance
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and the SORT_AREA_SIZE. Information Center: Overview
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By using information from V$STATNAME and V$SYSSTAT, a DBA can determine whether
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or not more sorts are being performed on disk than is desired. A large number
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SORT_AREA_SIZE. Any changes made to the SORT_AREA_SIZE parameter will have a
   

like effect on the size of the SGA. Measurements have shown that large sort

areas (over 10 Meg)do not perform much better than 1 Meg sort area unless a
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disk sort is avoided altogether. No References available for
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Sample Output
   

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'INIT.ORASORT_AREA_SIZE:'||VALUE
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INIT.ORA sort_area_size: 524288

Diagnosing and Resolving
Error ORA-04031 on the
Shared Pool or Other
Memory Pools [146599.1]
NAME VALUE

SCRIPT: Check the Large

---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------
Pool sizing when Parallel
sorts (memory) 448,726
Processing is in use and
sorts (disk) 0
ORA-4031 errors occur.
sorts (rows) 921,405
[1504173.1]
Oracle Database Automated
SGA Memory Tuning
 
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References SCRIPT: Size Shared Pool
using V$shared_pool_advice.
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<Note:102339.1> Temporary Segments: What Happens When a Sort Occurs
Alert Log Recommendation -
&quot;Increase per process
  memlock (soft) limit to at
least &lt;n&gt;MB to lock
Script &lt;n&gt;% of SHARED
GLOBAL AREA (SGA) pages
into physical memory&quot;
column value format 999,999,999
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select 'INIT.ORA sort_area_size: '||value
   

from v$parameter

where name like 'sort_area_size'

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select a.name, value

from v$statname a, v$sysstat

where a.statistic# = v$sysstat.statistic#

and a.name in ('sorts (disk)', 'sorts (memory)', 'sorts (rows)')

 
 
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