ORA-600 [729] / ORA-04031 With SGA_TARGET and Rman Incremental Backups

(Doc ID 438321.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.3 [Release 10.2]
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.5 to 10.2.0.5 [Release 10.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 23-Oct-2013***

Symptoms

1. Block Change Tracking and Automatic Shared Memory Management (ASMM) are enabled.
2. Auto-SGA is enabled.
3. Shortly after startup the following errors occurred:

ORA-04031: unable to allocate 4080 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","unknown object","sga heap(1,0)","library cache")
ORA-12012: error on auto execute of job 14039

ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [729], [800], [space leak]
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [1234], [], [], [], [], [], [], []

4. These errors were produced during an RMAN incremental backups, but could occur under other conditions.

Cause

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