Re: ORA-04031

David,

What OS and Oracle version? At least in 8.1.7.0.0 on HPUX that error message could be the result of a bug - we get it every few weeks on our production financials database and have to bounce the DB. Flushing the Shared Pool every night doesn't prevent it. Eventually we'll patch to 8.1.7.4 where it's supposedly fixed.

This from Metalink (didn't copy the ID of the doc I found this in): "If you are receiving ORA-4031 errors which reference BAMIMA: Bam Buffer, please apply the 8.1.7.4 patchset. It is possible that you are hitting bug 2104071 which is fixed in that patchset."

Jack C. Applewhite
Database Administrator
Austin Independent School District
Austin, Texas
512.414.9715 (wk)
512.935.5929 (pager)
JApplewhite_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu

                                                                                                           
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I received ORA-04031 while exporting database. Can someone explain what causes it and how to fix it?

. exporting post-schema procedural objects and actions
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 4031 encountered ORA-04031: unable to allocate 4096 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","BEGIN :1 := "SYS"."DBMS_REFR...","PL/SQL MPCODE","BAMIMA: Bam Buffer")
EXP-00083: The previous problem occurred when calling SYS.DBMS_REFRESH_EXP_SITES.schema_info_exp
. exporting statistics

Export terminated successfully with warnings.

Thanks,
David

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