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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

SPIN_COUNT

Synopsis

Value: 1-1000000

Default: 1

Specifies the number of times a process will request a latch until it obtains one. If the number of requests reaches SPIN_COUNT, the process fails to acquire the latch, sleeps, and then tries to acquire the latch again. Because a latch is a low-level lock, a process does not hold it long, and it is less expensive to use CPU time by spinning a process than it is to make a process sleep. Obsolete with Oracle8i.

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