5.5. Tuning the Shared Server Option

Before tuning the Oracle Shared Server, examine the performance of the dispatchers and the shared server processes. You want to make sure that you have enough dispatchers so that clients are not waiting for dispatchers to respond to their requests, and you want enough shared server processes so that requests are not waiting to be processed. You also want to configure the Large Pool SGA memory area. The Large Pool stores the UGA, which contains much of the information that is stored in the PGA in a dedicated server configuration.

The Large Pool is designed to allow the database to request large amounts of memory from a separate area of the SGA. Before the database had a Large Pool design, memory allocations ...

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