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Oracle Troubleshooting

ORA-04030: out of process memory

Symptom:

The Oracle error:

ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate nnnn bytes.

Cause:

According to Oracle, this error is caused by the private memory available to the process becoming exhausted.

Possible remedies:

  • If the error was generated from RMAN then try reducing the number of channels used, e.g. add:

    Filesperset 20

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