Oracle-L: latch free - library cache

From: Dilip <dilip7772002_at_indiatimes.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 02:36:44 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0059870D.20030514023644@fatcity.com>

Hi List,

DB 8.1.7.4.0 on Sun sparc solaris 2.6
This is oracle applications 11.5.4

One of the program was running for very long time. So checked out v$session_wait for that perticular session. It was waiting on 'latch free' and from P2 column and v$latch, found out that it is waiting for library cache latch. Now docs says this is related to shared pool fragmentation. So checked v$sgastat where it showed 38M space free in the shared pool (Total shared pool is 800 MB). But it didnt throw ORA-4031 and the process was running for last 17 hours. I looked at v$librarycache and v$latchholder but didn't get any clue. At last, I flushed the shared pool but still that session was waiting on same wait event. Finally I had to kill the session. I am facing this situation once or twice in production and everytime I can't kill the session.

Can somebody tell me how should I debug furthur and go to the root cause of the problem. Does this mean I need to increse the shared pool ? CURSOR_SHARING is kept to FORCE.

Thanks,
~Dilip

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