Oracle database operating system memory allocation management for PGA – part 4: Oracle 11.2.0.4 and

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Oracle database operating system memory allocation management for PGA – part 4: Oracle 11.2.0.4 and AMM

This is the 4th post in a series of posts on PGA behaviour of Oracle. Earlier posts are: here
(PGA limiting for Oracle 12),here (PGA limiting for Oracle 11.2) and the
quiz on using PGA with AMM, into which this blogpost dives deeper.
As laid out in the quiz blogpost, I have a database with the following specifics:

-Oracle Linux x86_64 6u6.

-Oracle database 11.2.0.4 PSU 4

-Oracle database (single instance) with the following parameter set: memory_target=1G. No other memory related parameters set.
In this setup, I run the pga_filler script (source code here),
which creates a collection until the session statistic ‘session pga memory’ exceeds the grow_until variable, which for this case I set to 2100000000 (approximately 2.1G).
So: the instance is set to have AMM (memory_target) with a size of 1GB, which is supposed to be the total amount memory which this instance uses, and a session runs a PL/SQL procedure which only stops
if it has allocated 2.1GB, which is clearly more than configured with the memory_target parameter. Please mind a collection, which the anonymous procedure uses to allocate memory, is outside of the memory areas for which Oracle can move data to the assigned
temporary tablespace (sort, hash and bitmap memory areas).
After startup of the instance with only memory_target set to 1G, the memory partitioning looks like this:

SYS@v11204 AS SYSDBA> select component, current_size/power(1024,2), last_oper_type from v$memory_dynamic_components where current_size != 0;

COMPONENT							 CURRENT_SIZE/POWER(1024,2) LAST_OPER_TYP
---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- -------------
shared pool										168 STATIC
large pool										  4 STATIC
java pool										  4 STATIC
SGA Target										612 STATIC
DEFAULT buffer cache									424 INITIALIZING
PGA Target										412 STATIC

total PGA inuse 1325501440 bytes
total PGA allocated 1342077952 bytes
maximum PGA allocated 1342077952 bytes
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[oracle@bigmachine [v11204] trace]$ grep Total\ heap\ size v11204_ora_9041.trc
Total heap size =1494712248
Total heap size = 65512
Total heap size = 1638184
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mmap(0x7f0194f7a000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194f7a000
mmap(0x7f0194f8a000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194f8a000
mmap(0x7f0194f9a000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194f9a000
mmap(0x7f0194faa000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194faa000
mmap(0x7f0194fba000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194fba000
mmap(0x7f0194fca000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194fca000
mmap(0x7f0194fda000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194fda000
mmap(NULL, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_NORESERVE, 6, 0xea000) = 0x7f0194e6a000
mmap(0x7f0194e6a000, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194e6a000
mmap(0x7f0194e7a000, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194e7a000
mmap(0x7f0194e9a000, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194e9a000
mmap(0x7f0194eba000, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x7f0194eba000
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