Re: Failure to compress archive logs over 100M

"Burke, William F (Bill)" wrote:
>
> I just started getting hundreds of the following messages:
>
> /ora_archive/ptxor01/arch_log/ptxor01_1_17484.arc: -- file unchanged
>
> It appears to only come from a failed attempt to compress an archive log
> which is
>
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 104858112 Jul 3 04:07 ptxor01_1_17484.arc
>
> over 100M in size
>
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 71110623 Jul 6 07:11 ptxor01_1_17544.arc.Z
>
> logs under 100M compress just fine.
>
> Using a -f switch with the compress will compress the log, but the
> compressed file is larger than the original file. I have not seen this
> behavior before from compress. Any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Burke
> "The Kinder and Gentler DBA"
> International Oracle Users Group www.ioug.org
> Executive Vice President, Director of Marketing
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

Bill,

   The only logical explanation I see (which doesn't exclude illogical ones) is that your .arc file is already compressed - which would explain both the refusal to do something to it and the size increase. Have you tried to run

       file blahblah.arc ?

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