heap size exceeds notification threshold

x-i-x

heap size exceeds notification threshold 2048k

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

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
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
_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

  the threshold was increased to 50MB after regression tests, the threshold was increased to 50MB after regression tests