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10g Release 2 (10.2)

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V$PGA_TARGET_ADVICE

V$PGA_TARGET_ADVICE predicts how the cache hit percentage and over allocation count statistics displayed by the V$PGASTAT performance view would be impacted if the value of the PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET parameter is changed. The prediction is performed for various values of the PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET parameter, selected around its current value. The advice statistic is generated by simulating the past workload run by the instance.

The content of the view is empty if PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET is not set. In addition, the content of this view is not updated if the STATISTICS_LEVEL parameter is set to BASIC. Base statistics for this view are reset at instance startup and when the value of the PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET initialization parameter is dynamically modified.

Column Datatype Description
PGA_TARGET_FOR_ESTIMATE NUMBER Value of PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET for this prediction (in bytes)
PGA_TARGET_FACTOR NUMBER PGA_TARGET_FOR_ESTIMATE / the current value of the PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET parameter
ADVICE_STATUS VARCHAR2(3) Indicates whether the advice is enabled (ON) or disabled (OFF) depending on the value of the STATISTICS_LEVEL parameter
BYTES_PROCESSED NUMBER Total bytes processed by all the work areas considered by this advice (in bytes)
ESTD_EXTRA_BYTES_RW NUMBER Estimated number of extra bytes which would be read or written if PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET was set to the value of the PGA_TARGET_FOR_ESTIMATE column. This number is derived from the estimated number and size of work areas which would run in one-pass (or multi-pass) for that value of PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET.
ESTD_PGA_CACHE_HIT_PERCENTAGE NUMBER Estimated value of the cache hit percentage statistic when PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET equals PGA_TARGET_FOR_ESTIMATE. This column is derived from the above two columns and is equal to BYTES_PROCESSED / (BYTES_PROCESSED + ESTD_EXTRA_BYTES_RW)
ESTD_OVERALLOC_COUNT NUMBER Estimated number of PGA memory over-allocations if the value of PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET is set to PGA_TARGET_FOR_ESTIMATE. A nonzero value means that PGA_TARGET_FOR_ESTIMATE is not large enough to run the work area workload. Hence, the DBA should not set PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET to PGA_TARGET_FOR_ESTIMATE since Oracle will not be able to honor that target.

See Also:

Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide for information on tuning the PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET initialization parameter using the PGA advice views