checked ulimits first, no probs there, smon has accumulated over a gb of memory, been getting that message over and over for over and hour. Only thing I can think of is stop/starting the instance to free up the smon memory. Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Make sure that process limits (i.e. "ulimit -a") for the Oracle software owner account (usually "oracle") are set as recommended by Oracle Support, as in MetaLink note #169706.1? ORA-04030 means that the Oracle process attempted to allocate more memory for heap, similar to using the C "malloc()" function, so process limits could be very relevant... John D Parker wrote: > any quick ideas on how to fix this? > > Fri Jun 2 17:07:11 2006 > Doing block recovery for file 2 block 22497 > Fri Jun 2 17:07:11 2006 > Errors in file > /u01/oracle/product/10.2.0.1/EE/admin/PROD2/bdump/prod2_smon_30391.trc: > ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 8389132 bytes > (pga heap,redo read buffer) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com