ORA-00257 - lots of disk space available

Question

I am trying to load about 14 GBs of data, totaling ~13.5 million records.
The raw data is about 14GBs, and the table space is set to 30GBs, its all text data.
The data is from about 200 different site files ranging in size from 10-180 MBs.
This is (real) test data I'm using to try to optimize my indexes and such before I start using the table for actual reports.
A DBA, I am not, proficient at databases and programming, I am, so please bare with me :)
My process is to use sqlldr to on an Oracle 10 DB to load the data into a records_load table, then use a procedure to basically do an insert into records (...) select (...) from records_load, delete from records_load.
I did a couple sites one at a time, and they work fine, so I have 500,000 records in my records table.
But when I try to transfer the entire 13,000,000 records from the load table using the SP, it eventually hangs.
If I log into sqlplus from another window, I get
ERROR:
ORA-00257: archiver error. Connect internal only, until freed.
HOWEVER, everything I find online is telling me that a disk is full.
Oracle is setup on a Windows Server, as follows:
Drive Total Free
oracle-c (c:) 50.0 GB 39.3 GB
oracle-apps (e:) 99.9 GB 91.2 GB
oracle-logsA (f:) 195 GB 140 GB
oracle-logsB (g:) 83.5 GB 83.3 GB
oracle-data (h:) 278 GB 150 GB
I ran into this problem on as well on Friday, and ran:
RMAN> delete expired backup;
and this "seemed" to fix the issue, which doesn't make much sense to me.
So, I modified my SP somewhat today, to use a cursor, and loop through each site, and do the
"*loop* insert into records (...) select (...) from records_load *where site=cur_row.site*, delete from records_load *where site=cur_row.site*"
Now my db is hung again, with PLENTY of disk space.
I'm really not sure what to do and would really appreciate any suggestions?

Answer 1

As you can see, I didn't get any results from the "show parameter archive_log_dest" command.
I'm also showing the output of "show parameter log_archive" and "archive log list" since these are other commands I've stumbled upon to try to find a solution, in hopes that it helps you.
Just let me know if there's a typo in that command, and I'll re-run it.
Thanks
$ sqlplus user/pass@oracle as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Mon Nov 2 21:37:48 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
SQL> SHOW PARAMETER ARCHIVE_LOG_DEST
SQL>
SQL> show parameter log_archive
NAME TYPE VALUE
log_archive_config string
log_archive_dest string
log_archive_dest_1 string
log_archive_dest_10 string
log_archive_dest_2 string
log_archive_dest_3 string
log_archive_dest_4 string
log_archive_dest_5 string
log_archive_dest_6 string
log_archive_dest_7 string
log_archive_dest_8 string
NAME TYPE VALUE
log_archive_dest_9 string
log_archive_dest_state_1 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_10 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_2 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_3 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_4 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_5 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_6 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_7 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_8 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_9 string enable
NAME TYPE VALUE
log_archive_duplex_dest string
log_archive_format string ARC%S_%R.%T
log_archive_local_first boolean TRUE
log_archive_max_processes integer 2
log_archive_min_succeed_dest integer 1
log_archive_start boolean FALSE
log_archive_trace integer 0
SQL> archive log list
Database log mode Archive Mode
Automatic archival Enabled
Archive destination USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
Oldest online log sequence 6730
Next log sequence to archive 6730
Current log sequence 6732
SQL>