ORA-39095: Dump file space has been exhausted

Problem Description
I ran my datapump export operation with the combination of multiple dumpfile arguments and filesize parameter but it fails with ORA-39095 as below.

maximsg@TIGER> $expdp maximsg/a dumpfile=d:parti1.dmp,e:parti2.dmp,c:resit%U.dmp filesize=188417 tablespaces=users

Export: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thursday, 01 January, 2009 12:23:30

Copyright (c) 2003, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
Starting "MAXIMSG"."SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_05": maximsg/******** dumpfile=d:parti1.dmp,e:parti2.dmp,c:resit%U.dmp filesize=188417 tablespace
s=users
Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 20.12 MB
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/INDEX
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/CONSTRAINT
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/STATISTICS/INDEX_STATISTICS
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/REF_CONSTRAINT
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/STATISTICS/TABLE_STATISTICS
ORA-39095: Dump file space has been exhausted: Unable to allocate 188416 bytes
Job "MAXIMSG"."SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_05" stopped due to fatal error at 12:23:47

Just a variant of the above is below.
>expdp maximsg/a@tiger tablespaces=users filesize=200K directory=d dumpfile=b.dmp

Export: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Saturday, 03 January, 2009 22:29:34

Copyright (c) 2003, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
Starting "MAXIMSG"."SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_08": maximsg/********@tiger tablespaces=users filesize=200K directory=d dumpfile=b.d
Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 20.12 MB
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/INDEX
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/CONSTRAINT
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/STATISTICS/INDEX_STATISTICS
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/REF_CONSTRAINT
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/STATISTICS/TABLE_STATISTICS
ORA-39095: Dump file space has been exhausted: Unable to allocate 208896 bytes
Job "MAXIMSG"."SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_08" stopped due to fatal error at 10:30:17

Note that both in first and second case same errors are return but they show various bytes in order of unable to allocate. In first case Unable to allocate 188416 bytes and in second case Unable to allocate 208896 bytes.

Cause of the Error
They are many cause for which ORA-39095 is fired.
1)If the summation of dumpfile sizes that is specified in the datapump parameters is less than total dumpfile size that produces then ORA-39095 returns. Like in the second case the filesize is specified as 200K and only one dumpfile is specified. So maximum dumpfile size that can be produced is no more than 200K. If dumpfile to be produced is greater than 100K then above error will return.

Note that %U specification for the dump file can expand up to 99 files.
If 99 files have been generated before the export has completed, it will again return the ORA-39095 error. If in the second case %U is specified then maximum dumpfile size can be 99*200K=19800K. If dumpfile to be produced is greater than 19800K then error will return.


2)Like in the first case the size of filesize is too small and hence the error returns. filesize is defined about 184K(188407 bytes). And in the error message it shows unable to allocate 184K(188407 bytes). The solutions is and extra block is needed. As with 4k (with standard block size 8k) a block is generated so 188K filesize will solve the problem.


maximsg@TIGER> $expdp maximsg/a dumpfile=d:part1.dmp,e:part2.dmp,c:rest%U.dmp filesize=188K tablespaces=users

Export: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thursday, 01 January, 2009 12:25:09

Copyright (c) 2003, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
Starting "MAXIMSG"."SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_06": maximsg/******** dumpfile=d:part1.dmp,e:part2.dmp,c:rest%U.dmp filesize=188K tablespaces=use
rs
Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 20.12 MB
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/INDEX
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/CONSTRAINT
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/STATISTICS/INDEX_STATISTICS
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/REF_CONSTRAINT
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/STATISTICS/TABLE_STATISTICS
. . exported "CR_2"."OUT_CDR_TEST" 310.9 KB 2166 rows
. . exported "CR_2"."OUT_CDR" 484.4 KB 2606 rows
. . exported "CR_2"."USER_IP" 126 KB 3403 rows
. . exported "CR_2"."OUT_CDR_TEMP" 33.72 KB 361 rows
. . exported "CR_2"."USERS" 42.57 KB 230 rows
. . exported "SCOTT"."DEPT" 5.656 KB 4 rows
. . exported "SCOTT"."EMP" 7.851 KB 15 rows
. . exported "SCOTT"."SALGRADE" 5.585 KB 5 rows
. . exported "SCOTT"."BONUS" 0 KB 0 rows
Master table "MAXIMSG"."SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_06" successfully loaded/unloaded
******************************************************************************
Dump file set for MAXIMSG.SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_06 is:
D:\PART1.DMP
E:\PART2.DMP
C:\REST01.DMP
C:\REST02.DMP
C:\REST03.DMP
C:\REST04.DMP
C:\REST05.DMP
Job "MAXIMSG"."SYS_EXPORT_TABLESPACE_06" successfully completed at 12:25:32


Solution of the Error
1)Increase the total dumpfile number so that dump produced by export operation is lower than total dumpfile sizes that is specified in the expdp.
With the 'wildcard' specification (%U) the dump file can expand up to 99 files.

2)Use a bigger filesize value.

3)Another option is to use,
dumpfile=dmpdir1:part1_%U.dmp, dmpdir2:part2_%U.dmp, dmpdir3:part3_%U.dmp