There was a discussion at Oracle-L about shared pool chunk eviction and I thought I’d show how to see a shared pool memory chunk’s position in the LRU list yourself. This is a post mostly about Oracle internals and less about practical every day troubleshooting. There’s a view X$KGHLU (@kghlu.sql script) that shows you a summary of shared pool (sub)heap allocations and how many of these chunks are in the “transient list” (used once) vs. - Linux, Oracle, SQL performance tuning and tr...
