Parallel Export Fails With ORA-39095

39095 If There Are Less Specified Files Than Slaves

[ID 433391.1]

Modified 29-MAY
MAY-2007 Type PROBLEM Status MODERATED

In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution
References

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Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3

This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

When trying to export using PARALLEL clause with one dumpfile, or a number of dumpfile less than the parallelism
value.
The export may fail with the following error:
ORA-39095:
39095: Dump file space has been exhausted: Unable to allocate 8192 bytes

Cause

When using one dumpfile -or or a number less than parallelism value-,
value , several slave processes wait for the file locked by
the other process to write. And so we are not benefiting from the parallelism anyway.Sometimes the slave process
locking the file does not release the lock after finishing as it's supposed to release the lock when the dump process
ends, and it'll not end
d cause the other processes are waiting to write to the file.

Solution

1- Use a number of dumpfiles equal to, or more than the parallelism value.

2- Don't use PARALLEL clause.

References

Related

Products

• Oracle Database Products > Oracle Database > Oracle Database > Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition

Errors
ORA-39095