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Export Uses Up All Available Memory In HP-UX (Doc ID 787528.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.5 [Release 10.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
HP-UX Itanium

Symptoms

In the HP-UX utility "kmeminfo", as the export executes, "UFC file mrg" area keeps growing until nearly exhaustion of free memory. No error is detected in alert log or in trace file pointing to Oracle memory issue.

Changes

 HP 11x Tunable Kernel Parameters: filecache_max is set too low.

Cause

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