Subject: Memory Notification: Library Cache Object Loaded Into Sga
Doc ID: Note:330239.1 Type: PROBLEM
Last Revision Date: 18-JUL-2006 Status: PUBLISHED
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Cause
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Applies to: Oracle Server -EnterpriseEdition - Version:
This problem can occur on any platform.
Symptoms:
The following messages are reported in alert.log after10gRelease 2 is installed.
Memory Notification: Library Cache Object loaded into SGA
Heap size 2294K exceeds notification threshold (2048K)
Changes:
Installed / Upgraded to10gRelease 2
Cause:
These are warning messages that should not cause the program responsible for these errors to fail. They appear as a result of new event messaging mechanism and memory manager in10gRelease 2. The meaning is that the process is just spending a lot of time in finding free memory extents during an allocate as the memory may be heavily fragmented. Fragmentation in memory is impossible to eliminate completely, however, continued messages of large allocations in memory indicate there are tuning opportunities on the application. The messages do not imply that an ORA-403X is about to happen.
Solution:
In10gwe have a new undocumented parameter that sets the KGL heap size warning threshold. This parameter was not present in 10gR1. Warnings are written if heap size exceeds this threshold.
Set _kgl_large_heap_warning_threshold to a reasonable high value or zero to prevent these warning messages. Value needs to be set in bytes.
If you want to set this to 8192 (8192 * 1024) and are using an spfile:
(logged in as "/ as sysdba")
SQL> alter system set "_kgl_large_heap_warning_threshold"=8388608 scope=spfile ;
SQL> shutdown immediate
SQL> startup
SQL> show parameter _kgl_large_heap_warning_threshold
NAME TYPE VALUE
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_kgl_large_heap_warning_threshold integer 8388608
If using an "old-style" init parameter,Edit the init parameter file and add_kgl_large_heap_warning_threshold=8388608
In10.2.0.2, the threshold is increased to 50MB after regression tests, so this should be a reasonable and recommended value.
