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... or increase the oracle user's ulimit, or kernel limit perhaps (you
didn't mention which platform) ? What does ulimit -a tell you ?
Stefan
On 2/19/07, Powell, Mark D <mark.powell_at_eds.com> wrote:
>
> The error means pretty much that you have no more free OS memory
> available. You need to either expand the OS memory or reduce the load on
> the machine.
>
> $ oerr ora 04030
> 04030, 00000, "out of process memory when trying to allocate %s bytes
> (%s,%s)"
> // *Cause: Operating system process private memory has been exhausted
> // *Action:
>
> -- Mark D Powell --
> Phone (313) 592-5148
>
>
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *John Dunn
> *Sent:* Monday, February 19, 2007 6:05 AM
> *To:* oracle-l
> *Subject:* ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 5424
> bytes (cursor work he,Scan compression ctx)
>
> Anyone seen this error before in Oracle 9?
>
> ORA-04030: out of process memory
> when trying to allocate 5424 bytes (cursor work he,Scan compression ctx)
>
> Cannot find anything on metalink related to Scan compression ctx)
>
>
> John
>
>
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