Hi Greg, Here is little more information i forgot to put We are doing kind of select x,y,z from abc partition(Q) group by x,y,z; Where Partition is hash partition. So, can you help me how to dig into this isssue On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Greg Rahn <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This sounds like a bug with a hash group by. I would recommend > working with Oracle Support. Bug/patch 6471770 would be where I would > start. > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Taral Desai<taral.desai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Gurus, > > We are using oracle 10.2.0.3 on sparc solaris 64 bit with 16 CPU and 32GB > of > > physical memory. Our sga_target is 12G and pga target is 15G. > > We are receiving > > ORA-32690: Hash Table Infrastructure ran out of memory > > We had identified query which is running in parallel 8 and using huge > hash > > group by. May be due to that this error is there. But here are some > > questions > > 1. How to find why this error is coming. Any trace dump or pga dump can > > help ? Because i believe it was not using temp space at all. We have 2 TB > > temp space free. > > 2. i think for hash group by if it don't get any memory it spill to temp > ? > > then why this error > > 3. How to monitor this while this error is happening. > > 4. How to dig into issue using dumps and what to look for. > > 5 IS PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET only use 5 % for each parallel process > > > -- > Regards, > Greg Rahn > http://structureddata.org > -- Thanks & Regards, Taral Desai Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marie_von_ebnereschenbac.html> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."