Oracle 8.0.5/NT4 SP3 Memory Leakage Problem

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 Mon Feb 01 1999 - 16:43:20 CST