Any memory leak is certainly capable of causing performance problems.

Are you asking about memory leaks in Oracle internals? I have never seen
such a thing from Oracle itself. I would realistically expect that you have
10's of thousands of things that warrant concern before leaks in the Oracle
executable.

Are you asking about memory leaks in your application, which uses Oracle?
Those are certainly more common. What language is your application written
in?

Are you asking about resource leaks in your application which cause Oracle
to not be able to release resources, i.e. cursor leaks, connection leaks,
etc?

Justin Cave <[Email address protected]
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

-----Original Message-----
From: j [mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x60864230.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:31 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Re: rollback not shrinking

Dear All,

Can memory leak in oracle cause performance problem? if yes how to
identify memory leaks? and how to resolve them?

Jay


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