Re: Shared server chews up memory

Sounds like you have a bug. Did you report this to Oracle support? They may have a bugfix already.

HTH,
Brian

stevecroft_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I have an interesting problem with 8.1.7, running on SPARC Solaris 8.
> Several times a day our memory resources are chewed up by a shared
> server process. Memory usage by a single server process continues to
> grow until all space is consumed.
>
> If I look at v$shared_server I see only one server, S000. If I look at
> the UNIX process list, I can see two, s000 and s001. All the memory is
> being eaten by s001.
>
> Watching it in action I it appears that s0001 goes bonkers upon
> deallocation. Has anyone seen similar behaviour? One Oracle rep told
> me they have seen numerous memory leak problems in 8.1.7 and patches are
> on the way. That's a bit disappointing since I though 8.1.7 was going
> to be tweaks and not major changes - the "buttoning up" of 8i as it were.
>
> Steve
>
> 8.1.7.00
> Solaris 8 (SPARC)
>
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