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PLSQL Procedure Causing ORA-04030: (pga heap,control file i/o buffer) And ORA-04030: (koh-kghu sessi,pmuccst: adt/record) or ORA-04030: (koh-kghucall ,pmucalm coll) Errors (Doc ID 1325100.1)

Last updated on MARCH 06, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.0.6 and later
Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 11.1.0.6 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You are running a PL/SQL package or procedure and are consistently encountering an ORA-4030 when the process uses 4GB.  The values for the _PGA_MAX_SIZE and PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET has been set to values even greater than the 4GB, but yet the same errors persist when 4GB is used.

Errors seen are similar to the following:

ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 82456 bytes (pga heap,control file i/o buffer)
ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 16328 bytes (koh-kghu sessi,pmuccst: adt/record)

- OR -

ORA-06500: PL/SQL: storage error
ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 16328 bytes (koh-kghucall ,pmucalm coll)
ORA-06512: at line ...

Changes

Upgrade to 11.2.0.1 or higher.

Cause

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