hi Yong: Note 1114533.1 is for windows platform. We are using 11.2.0.2 version (Solaris sparc 64 bit). The bug is not fixed in this version. I also found somebody else had the same problem on oracle-l, but in his case the cursor was not so big. And there was no solution provided in his email thread. I will contact oracle support for the patch on solaris sparc. When active sessions are using the SQL, you can't flush it out. dbms_shared_pool.purge could lead to mutex contention in this case when you have so big cursor. Thanks. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I looked at our 11.2.0.1 database (on RHEL5 64-bit) to see if there's a > huge heap 0 cursor. The biggest I find is 12M: > > SQL> select max(kglobhs0), max(kglobhs6) from x$kglob; > > MAX(KGLOBHS0) MAX(KGLOBHS6) > ------------- ------------- > 12971512 547536 > > That object is a very simple SQL, a query on a simple table with a few > simple column types. So 12M does look buggy. This SQL has only a few > child cursors. But the client is "JDBC Thin Client", possibly 11gR2 > as well. The biggest component in the cursor heap 0 is also permanent > chunks. > > If the Bug is 10082277, then the good news is, the bug is fixed in > 11.2.0.2, according to Note:1114533.1. For the time being, you can purge > the SQL to release memory with dbms_shared_pool.purge. But may need to > schedule a job to do it so the heap won't grow too big. > > Yong Huang > -- Eagle Fan (www.dbafan.com)