ORA 600 [kcbAdoptBuffers_pw]

We hit this bug the other day. The oracle note references creating an index as part of this bug. As far as I can tell, we weren’t doing that when we hit this. It is a vendor application though, and I know they do some DDL such as creating tables on the fly. I was never able to reproduce the bug at will, but I was getting flooded with these alerts.

Oracle support recommended we change the _db_cache_pre_warm parameter to false

SELECT 
ksppinm, ksppstvl, ksppdesc 
FROM 
x$ksppi x, x$ksppcv y 
WHERE 
x.indx = y.indx 
AND translate (ksppinm, '_', '#') like '#%' AND ksppinm = '_db_cache_pre_warm'; 

KSPPINM                    KSPPSTVL   KSPPDESC
-------------------------- ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------
_db_cache_pre_warm         TRUE       Buffer Cache Pre-Warm Enabled : hidden parameter

We changed it to false, and did a rolling restart of the database

alter system set "_db_cache_pre_warm " = FALSE scope=spfile; 

after restarting

SELECT 
ksppinm, ksppstvl, ksppdesc 
FROM 
x$ksppi x, x$ksppcv y 
WHERE 
x.indx = y.indx 
AND translate (ksppinm, '_', '#') like '#%' AND ksppinm = '_db_cache_pre_warm'; 

KSPPINM                    KSPPSTVL   KSPPDESC
-------------------------- ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------
_db_cache_pre_warm         FALSE      Buffer Cache Pre-Warm Enabled : hidden parameter

The errors have stopped. This appears to be bug 21864012