Larger backups for cumulative incremental level 1 backups

I am noticing some strange behaviour for backup of data files in the RMAN cumulative incremental level 1 backup for certain days. I would explain that with an elaboration- the cumulative backup sizes are around 2GB, 19GB, 19GB, 1GB for the dates of 10th Dec, 5th Dec, 3rd Dec and 28th Nov respectively.
Can there be so much difference between the values of backup size for the RMAN cumulative incremental level 1 backup as they are fluctuating from 19GB->1GB?
I hope, my question is clear.
Please revert with the reply to my query.
Regards

975148 wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Level 0 backup happened twice between 5th Dec and 10th Dec. I guess, a block which has changed multiple times would be backed up once with all the changes done in a backup on a particular day. The same changes should get reflected in the subsequent level 0 backup.
Regards
Yes, obviously any backup (of any kind, of any product) is only capable of backing up the state of things as they exist at the time of the backup.
The recoverability of "intermediate" states (say a given block was modified 5 times between backups, the next backup only gets the 5th state of the block) is done by applying redo - archived or online, as is needed.
So to make an example to replicate what you report
Day 1 - backup level 0
- block # 1 modified
Day 2  - backup level 1 - backs up Block #1 - backup size 8k
- block # 1 modified
- block # 2 modified
- block # 1 modified
- block # 3 modified
- block # 1 modified
- block # 4 modified
Day 3 - backup level 1 - backs up Blocks 1,2,3,4 - backup size 32k
- block # 5 modified
- block # 2 modified
- block # 7 modified
- block # 3 modified
- block # 6 modified
- block # 4 modified
Day 4 - backup level 1 - backs up Blocks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 - backup size 56k
- block # 5 modified
Day 4 - backup level 1 - backs up Blocks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 - backup size 56k
Day 6 - backup level 0 - all blocks - size ???
- block # 3 modified
Day 7 - backup level 1 - backs up block 3 - backup size 8 k

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