Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.server:39637 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!netnews.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!remarQ73!supernews.com!remarQ.com!remarQ69!not-for-mail From: terrry banicki Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle 8.0.5/NT4 SP3 Memory Leakage Problem Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 22:01:43 -0600 Organization: Posted via RemarQ, http://www.remarQ.com - Discussions start here! Lines: 45 Message-ID: <36B7CA26.789DEC24@webmart.net> References: <36B62E08.4AFFA4CE@digital-dispatch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 918014406 .ZFUVYH4M2AE0D0EBC usenet53.supernews.com X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@remarQ.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en 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!