12.5. Memory Tuning

Some of the memory structures used by Oracle include the database buffer cache, the shared pool, and the redo log buffer cache, as shown below. (These memory structures were discussed in Chapter 8, "Installing Oracle and Creating a Database.") While increasing the memory allocated for any of these structures will usually help, how much is enough? How much is too much?

You can adjust the amount of memory allocated to each of these areas by changing the value of a parameter in the parameter file used by Oracle, called a PFILE. A PFILE is a text file containing the parameters and their values for configuring the database and ...

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