SQL*Plus core dump

Dear List,

Apologies in advance for the long message, but the error messages are no doubt significant to the problem.

As part of our testing procedures we kill SQL scripts (anonymous PL/SQL blocks normally) during execution using the following:

     SQL> alter system kill session '18,44329';

     System altered.

Recently, however SQL*Plus is core dumping rather than politely reporting session killed. The error given to screen is (The SP2-0642 message appears hundreds of times, here are the last two):

     SP2-0642: SQL*Plus internal error state 2167, context 4294967294:2:0
     Unable to proceed
     SP2-0642: SQL*Plus internal error state 2167, context 4294967294:2:0
     Unable to proceed
     Segmentation Fault(coredump)
     $

The script is also being spooled to a file, which shows:

     ERROR:
     ORA-01012: not logged on

     ERROR:
     ORA-01012: not logged on


     SP2-0359: memory exhausted
     Error accessing package DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO
     ERROR:
     ORA-01012: not logged on

     SP2-0359: memory exhausted
     SP2-0359: memory exhausted

The all important version numbers are (all running on Solaris - both database and SQL*Plus) :

     SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Tue Jan 7 11:46:35 2003

     (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

     Connected to:
     Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production
     With the Partitioning option
     JServer Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production

Has anyone experienced SQL*Plus core dumping like this? Any advice would be welcomed.

Thanks,

     Mark.

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