pga_aggregate_target to workaround pga memory leak?

We are experiencing a pga memory leak. So far I have not matched it up to a specific bug, and because of our environment we can't really work with support to narrow it down. I'll work on isolating the problem myself but....

I'm looking for a workaround. Typically we see the allocated PGA increase much faster than what is actually being used. I'm looking into seeing if we can workaround this with pga_aggregate_target & workarea_size_policy.

Is pga_aggregate_target a hard limit? IE, if I have a leaking PGA will it stop there? I'm sure it would depend on the leak, I'm just talking through it to see if the concept has merit.

As an aside, is there any way to free a processes unused, allocated PGA?

Thanks

Try this in your code:
dbms_session.free_unused_user_memory ;

This will free up PGA and UGA.

Tamil

Thanks Tamil,

Do you know if there is a way to execute this for another session? I didn't see anything in dbms_system or oradebug which would help.

Pat

You will not see it in dbms_system pkg.

Tamil