ORA-04030 while generating HTML files

Question

While generating HTML files out of the database, combining XML type and structured data, and storing these files in XDB filesysteem. I get the following error.
ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 2048 bytes (cursor work he,kghsseg : kokeismo)
Does anybody have an clue about the cause. We are using a 9i database, with patch 9.2.0.6. not yet installed, running on Solaris. it looks like the generator stops every time after the same content item.

Answer 1

Hi,
This is because of fragmentation of shared pool. If this is other than production database, you can flush the shared pool by "alter system flush shared pool;".
For production database, it is not advisable to flush the shared pool as it contains parsed sql statements. You can increase the shared_pool_reserved_size. Normally it's 10% of shared_pool_size. If you are using Oracle 8i, you can set shared_pool_min_alloc parameter so that for memory higher than this value only, the reserved size will be used. This parameter is deprecated in 9i. For temporary purpose, you can execute dbms_shared_pool.aborted_request_threshold(val_in_bytes) to release space from shared_pool.
Thanx.