Hi, Without HEAPDUMP, It may be hard to diagnose ORA-4031. If you did not set HEAPDUMP trace for this error, set it as below: ********************************************************* event="4031 trace name HEAPDUMP level 2" ********************************************************* After this error occurs, a trace file will be generated. Then, paste your trace. danisment... best regards... http://www.ubTools.com Web Based Oracle Products and Services ----- Original Message ----- From: <M.K.Jha@xxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:06 PM Subject: Re: 4031 - errors > Hi Lists, > > Jonathan is right. > There may be two possible reasons for this error: > 1) really have very low value of allocated for shared sql area or > 2) High version counts of cursors are consuming lots of sharable memory. > > In well design production system, reasons two are best candidate for ORA-04031. > I have encountered the same problem in our prod. systems where cursor sharing > are restricted for below mentioned case: > --cursor text have " IN / BETWEEN" in where clause > -- Cursor_Sharing ="FORCE" > -- optimizer is cost base > > First find the reason for high consumption of shared sql area and then do the > needful to remove the bottleneck. > > > > > ========= > > It is quite possible that the 'cursor_space_for_time' > setting is relevant. When set to true, this pins cursor > run-time memory into the library cache (faking the > situation of every cursor in the cache being open > and active. Since this memory can no longer be > freed, you can easily run out of memory if you > have made a small error in your estimate of > number of sessions and number of different > sql statements. > > Bringing a new module into the system, adding > a new user to the system, allowing someone to > run ad hoc SQL, adding a monitoring tool - > anything which increases the number of SQL > statements, or number of sessions executing > shared sql statements, could take you into 4031. > > On the other hand, is could just be a bug where > Oracle is generating lots of copies of cursors > that should be shared but aren't. I've just come > back from a site where there were several hundred > copies of some cursors visible in v$sql - after only > a handful of invalidations or reloads - and only a few > dozen active sessions. > > Regards > > Jonathan Lewis > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html > The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html > Optimising Oracle Seminar - schedule updated May 1st > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Duret, Kathy" <kduret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:53 PM > Subject: 4031 - errors > > > Had a strange problems on Friday afternoon. We are on 8.1.7.4 Solaris > > Had a ton of Bam - ora_04031 errors. > > Tried to flush the shared pool and it would release some space but a large > chuck was not being released and this was strange since we have only acouple > of objects pinned. > > When I tried to pin an object that was failing right after I would flush the > shared_pool I couldn't get space. > > Nothing new was put in that week as far as I know. > > Put in a tar with Oracle and they suggested to bounce the database - which I > did later, increased the shared_pool and session_cached_cursors > We have pinned some more objects that are being loaded alot. > > I looked at the sql area and nothing looked horrible, all the same normal > stuff. In fact there was really no load on the database or machine, no > swapping or paging. > > It was very strange. 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