This alarm indicates that the server’s swap space is in danger of being depleted. This is usually caused by a process that has allocated a very large amount of memory over time.
Severity:
Major
Instance:
May include AlarmLocation, AlarmId, AlarmState, AlarmSeverity, and bindVarNamesValueStr
HA Score:
Normal
Auto Clear Seconds:
0 (zero)
OID:
tpdSwapSpaceShortageError
Alarm ID:
TKSPLATMA8
Recovery:
Run syscheck in verbose mode.
Determine processes using swap.
Note: One method to determine the amount of swap being used by process is:
grep VmSwap /proc/<process id>/status
It is recommended to contact My Oracle Support (MOS) and provide the system health check output and process swap usage.