The buffer manager failed a memory allocation call for 10485760 bytes

Question

I have a for each loop container which executes for each row in the recordset destination.
In the for each loop container i have a dataflow task where in source is a oracle server and it performs two ookups before inserting the data into the destination.
There are around 270k records coming from source...that means and around when 38k records are inserted in the destination the packages stops its execution and it says "The buffer manager failed a memory allocation call for 10485760 bytes".
Can anyone help me in fixing this issue??
TIA

Answer 1

Hi Abhinav530,
According to your description, when you execute the SSIS package, you got the error message: "The buffer manager failed a memory allocation call for 10485760 bytes".
According to the error message, the machine has run out of physical memory (i.e. RAM) and is unable to swap out to hard disk. To troubleshoot the problem, please pay attention to these points:
Add more physical memory to the computer.
If you are running the SSIS  package on a computer that is running an instance of SQL Server, when you run the package, set the Maximum server memory option for the SQL Server instance to a smaller value. This behavior increases available memory.
Exit applications that consume lots of memory when you run the SSIS package that contains dataflow tasks.
Run the SSIS package and the dataflow tasks in series instead of in parallel to decrease memory usage.
For more information about Data Flow Performance Features, please refer to the following document:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141031.aspx
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
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