ORA-04031 in spite of enough free memory
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 13:04:30 +0000
Message-ID: <22726_1559048684_5CED31EC_22726_595_1_85d212a2f6b840a5a8a5865650cc2093_at_vontobel.com>
I've got the following error on a 12.2 database during some intensive DML operations on securefile LOBs:
ORA-04031: unable to allocate 52824 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","unknown object","KTSL subheap","ktsl_load_disp-2")
The session was waiting on an SGA resizing operation to complete:
0: waited for 'SGA: allocation forcing component growth'
=0x0, =0x0, =0x0
wait_id=75 seq_num=126 snap_id=26
wait times: snap=0.000000 sec, exc=2.501782 sec, total=2.504110 sec
wait times: max=infinite
wait counts: calls=25 os=25
occurred after 0.000000 sec of elapsed time
1: waited for 'SGA: allocation forcing component growth'
=0x0, =0x0, =0x0
wait_id=100 seq_num=125 snap_id=1
wait times: snap=0.000085 sec, exc=0.000085 sec, total=0.000085 sec
wait times: max=infinite
wait counts: calls=1 os=1
occurred after 0.000000 sec of elapsed time
2: waited for 'SGA: allocation forcing component growth'
=0x0, =0x0, =0x0
wait_id=75 seq_num=124 snap_id=25
wait times: snap=0.100115 sec, exc=2.501782 sec, total=2.504025 sec
wait times: max=infinite
wait counts: calls=25 os=25
occurred after 0.000000 sec of elapsed time
The resizing operations failed - I assume that's one of the reasons for ORA-04031:
COMPONENT OPER_TYPE OPER_MODE PARAMETER INITIAL_SIZE TARGET_SIZE FINAL_SIZE STATUS
-------------------- ------------- --------- ----------------- ------------ ----------- ---------- --------- shared pool STATIC shared_pool_size 0 1493172224 1493172224 ERROR shared pool STATIC shared_pool_size 0 1493172224 1493172224 ERROR shared pool STATIC shared_pool_size 0 1493172224 1493172224 ERROR shared pool STATIC shared_pool_size 0 1493172224 1493172224 ERROR shared pool STATIC shared_pool_size 0 1493172224 1493172224 ERROR DEFAULT buffer cache STATIC db_cache_size 0 402653184 402653184 ERROR DEFAULT buffer cache STATIC db_cache_size 0 402653184 402653184 ERROR shared pool STATIC shared_pool_size 0 1493172224 1493172224 ERROR
However, according to the ORA-04031 dump there were 496 MB free memory to allocate 52824 bytes from:
TOP 10 MEMORY USES FOR SGA HEAP
"free memory " 496 MB 35%
"object queue hash buckets " 192 MB 13%
"Checkpoint queue " 96 MB 7%
"KTSL subheap " 93 MB 7%
"ASH buffers " 71 MB 5%
"dbwriter coalesce buffer " 46 MB 3%
"event statistics per sess " 23 MB 2%
"private strands " 22 MB 2%
"kcbi io desc slot " 21 MB 1%
"kglsim object batch " 19 MB 1%
TOTALS --------------------------------------- Total free memory 496 MB Total memory alloc. 928 MB Grand total 1424 MB
Furthermore, the consecutive pieces of freeable memory seemed to be large enough to fulfil the request for 52824 bytes allocation:
/u00/oracle/orabase/local/bin/heapdump_analyzer DB_ora_13989.trc | grep free | more
- Heapdump Analyzer v1.00 by Tanel Poder ( http://www.tanelpoder.com )
Total_size #Chunks Chunk_size, From_heap, Chunk_type, Alloc_reason
- ------- ------------ ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- ... 73586688 1392 52864 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, KTSL subheap 20987008 397 52864 , sga heap(1,0), R-freeable, KTSL subheap 19408560 11390 1704 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, kcbi io desc sl 16789760 20 839488 , sga heap(1,3), R-free, 12581760 6 2096960 , sga heap(1,0), R-free, 11036608 11 1003328 , sga heap(1,0), R-free, 7983416 3853 2072 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, parameter table 7367360 7 1052480 , sga heap(1,0), R-free, 5876208 1898 3096 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, keomg: entry li 4642128 1 4642128 , sga heap(1,3), free, 4625848 127 36424 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, krbmror 4624200 9175 504 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, KGLDA 4423720 305 14504 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, ksu:stats_freel 4342896 1 4342896 , sga heap(1,3), free, 4271864 1021 4184 , sga heap(1,0), freeable, KTSL subheap 4161536 1016 4096 , sga heap(1,3), freeableU, SQLA^74619d27 4129664 1 4129664 , sga heap(1,3), free, 3985104 1 3985104 , sga heap(1,3), free, 3693256 1 3693256 , sga heap(1,3), free, 3237952 1 3237952 , sga heap(1,3), free, 3169152 6 528192 , sga heap(1,0), R-free, 2811872 1 2811872 , sga heap(1,3), free, 2588672 632 4096 , sga heap(1,3), freeableU, SQLA^1e63b6a ...
A little side note: Thank you, Tanel, for providing such a useful script!
I'm aware that the memory assigned to this instance is tiny (it's a sandbox) and that throwing a couple of GBs would prevent the error. I could easily do that, but my objective is to use this occurrence for learning.
Nenad
https://nenadnoveljic.com/blog/
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