"Native memory allocation (malloc) failed" Error Starting ODI 12c Standalone Agent (Doc ID 2722053.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 29, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

When starting an Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Standalone agent, an error similar to the following occurs:

# There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
# Native memory allocation (malloc) failed to allocate 440096 bytes for Chunk::new
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# <ODI_HOME>\user_projects\domains\<DOMAIN>\bin\hs_err_pidxxxx.log
#
# Compiler replay data is saved as:
# <ODI_HOME>\user_projects\domains\<DOMAIN>\bin\replay_pidxxxx.log

Cause

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