Stale Native Code Files Are Being Cached with File Names Such as: JOXSHM_EXT*, PESHM_EXT*, PESLD* or SHMDJOXSHM_EXT* (Doc ID 1120143.1)

Symptoms

Files with various name formats are being created but not removed which may lead to file storage issues or errors. File name formats are similar to the following:

JOXSHM_EXT_*_sid_name_*
and / or
PESHM_EXT_*_sid_name_*
and / or
PESLD_sid_name_*
and / or
.SHMDJOXSHM_EXT_*_sid_name_*
and / or
.SHMDPESHM_EXT_*_sid_name_*
and / or
.SHMDPESLD_sid_name_*

The location of these files depends on the operating system and how it implements shm_open() there. On platforms such as Linux and Solaris object based shared memory segments are used and the files are found in /dev/shm and /tmp respectively. On AIX, no files are seen at the file system level, however the shared memory segments can be seen using the 'ipcs -ar' command. On other platforms such as HP Itanium, file based shared memory segments are used, with the default location for HP being $ORACLE_HOME/dbs. 

When stale copies of these files are not correctly cleaned up this can impact the server's shared memory and paging space, requiring a server reboot to clear the memory.

Changes

This issue is seen with 11.1 or higher.

Cause

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