Oracle-L: RE: ora-04031 and x$ksmlru

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:40:07 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00462B0D.20020516104007@fatcity.com>

Tim,

I don't know if it matters, but we faced the same error in 9x, and when we set the hash_area_size to 1M, it went away. The exact error message for us was

ORA-04031: unable to allocate 1126656 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","unknown object","hash-join subh","kllcqc:kllcqslt")

The 3rd parameter is "hash-join subh", so I think it pertains to hash joins. For Barb, the third parameter is "cursor work he(ap)" so I wonder would it pertain to hash_area_size at all?

Raj

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Thanks to the wonderful search capabilities that Steve Adams has installed on his website at www.ixora.com.au, the following page has some more information about the X$KSMLRU fixed-table
(http://www.zoftware.org/tuning/tune_shared_pool.html#fixed_table)...

I did an "advanced search" on MetaLink for "kllcqc", making sure to check the checkbox for "Bug Database" -- quite a few bugs appeared (for what they are worth). One of them (#2324210) is against 9.0.1.3 on Solaris, but the error message looks remarkably like yours even so. Like you, they are using MTS. They indicate that the settings for SORT_AREA_SIZE and HASH_AREA_SIZE are too large for the Shared Pool, hence the ORA-04031. The solution is to reduce SORT_AREA_SIZE and HASH_AREA_SIZE...

What are the settings for SORT_AREA_SIZE and HASH_AREA_SIZE here? Is it possible that the users may be using ALTER SESSION SET to set their own "custom" values for these parameters? I think this statement should appear in the V$SQL or V$SQLAREA if they are using it. This would possibly explain the sudden (and violent) onset of these symptoms...

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