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When setting audit policy ACTIONS ALL, PGA size is increased continuously and ORA-4036 is caused (Doc ID 2355260.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 02, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 12.2.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

When setting audit policy ACTIONS ALL, PGA size is increased continuously and ORA-4036 is caused.

After setting auditing policy (ex: ACTIONS ALL) to user, pga size is increased according to executions of sql from this user.

When this is caused, the size of "alloc lob locator" in "koh-kghu sessi" is increased continuously.

The detail can be confirmed increased heap from PGA heapdump or v$process_memory_detail.

 

 

Changes

 

Cause

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