Re: Oracle 8.0.5/NT4 SP3 Memory Leakage Problem

There were a bunch of Memory Leaks fixed in 80510a. Its is out on metalink's download page. It says it was out there on 1/19, but we just found it last Friday. The bug list grouped by types of bugs. Pretty Slick for Oracle...

Terry, Illinova Corp.

Mark Tompkins wrote:

> Help!
>
> I am on a team developing a 24X7X365 application. Our target is Oracle
> 8.x on NT 4.x. Our development machine is a Compaq Proliant 800 with 5
> - 4 gig scsi disks, 320 Megs RAM, 12/24 Gig tape Drive. The machine has
> an IDE CDROM. We have other servers and clients that are at lower
> release versions than this server, and they are connecting periodically
> (to test connections). The machine is being used for testing
> backup/recovery via recovery manager, so it is essentially idle 99% of
> the time.
>
> I am encountering an out of memory error on NT 4.0 Service pack 3 with
> Oracle 8.0.5. If I leave the Enterprise Manager Console, Backup Manager
> or Netscape Navigator 4.0.5 active overnight, the next day all
> available memory is consumed, and I have to restart the server. This
> appears to be either a version incompatibility bug caused by the older
> clients connecting to 8.0.5, bad Oracle 'bad programming' bug, or a
> Microsoft 'level the playing field' bug (i.e. kernal code that has a
> seek and destroy Oracle branch in the logic -> death by a thousand
> cuts). Has anyone encountered this problem?
>
> I phoned Oracle Tech support and they said that other people have
> reported this problem. I told Oracle tech support that I felt that this
> problem obviated use of Oracle 8 on NT for continuous operation. The
> Oracle tech support person agreed. I then said that either Oracle 8 has
> a memory leak, or there is some other bug, or maybe something diabolical
> is going on. The Oracle tech support person replied that several people
> had made the later observation, and had implicated the OS vendor. Has
> anyone observed this problem, on NT or other OSes? Does anyone have an
> explanation for this issue?
>
> What the heck is going on here?
>
> Thank You
>
> P.S. I am trying to get up to speed on Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux ASAP!
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 22:01:43 CST