Re: how to analyze core dumps

From: Sergey V Dolgov <dsv_at_pptus.oilnet.ru>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:16:59 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0058B5B1.20030428201659@fatcity.com>

Hello Helmut,

Monday, April 28, 2003, 10:30:30 PM, you wrote:

DH> Hi!

DH> My database produces a core dump every minute, but we have no idea why.
DH> Nothing gets written to the alert log or the like. Hardly anybody is on the
DH> system and even bouncing the instance didn't help...

I used to see such situation when our database had job started by wrong user (sys istead of schema owner). I've just stopped that job - no more core dumps :-)

DH> How do I read the core dumps created in the udump directory? This seems to DH> be a binary file.

DH> /udump/core_1542/core (about 600 MB in size)

DH> Or is th eonly way to send it to Oracle Support for analysis?

DH> This is 8.1.7 on Solaris 8.

DH> Thanks,
DH> Helmut

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