ORA-00600: [729] on Memory Allocation Containing the Description "VPD kzrtcsvtx m". (Doc ID 949526.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 08, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

This error was observed on Oracle 10.2.0.3 64-bit on a HP-UX Itanium server.

The alert log shows:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [729], [1272], [space leak], [], [], [], [], []
. .  .
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [1234], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [729], [1272], [space leak], [], [], [], [], []


The trace file shows no current cursor.

The function stack indicates the problem occurred after a process had logged off and was releasing memory

The trace file shows the leaked memory is the following:
Chunk 9fffffffbf3628a8 sz= 208 freeable "VPD kzrtcsvtx m"
Chunk 9fffffffbef00128 sz= 216 freeable "VPD kzrtcsvtx m"
Chunk 9fffffffbf1f61b8 sz= 216 freeable "VPD kzrtcsvtx m"
Chunk 9fffffffbef20258 sz= 208 freeable "VPD kzrtcsvtx m"
Chunk 9fffffffbf1ab1c8 sz= 216 freeable "VPD kzrtcsvtx m"
Chunk 9fffffffbf3e05b8 sz= 208 freeable "VPD kzrtcsvtx m"

This totals the amount of the reported memory leak in the ORA-600[729] message (1272)

Cause

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