Re: Process died -- no info in trace files

From: Jack van Zanen <jack_at_vanzanen.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:30:24 +1000
Message-ID: <77a615a70904151830p4e9bd759le25e265ac0bb7f6_at_mail.gmail.com>



metalink doc *790397.1*

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has similar errors but for different processes. Could the underlying cause be the same .

Cause This is caused by lack of OS configuration, where more memory is required as OS reached the limits set.

Jack

2009/4/16 Saad Khan <saad4u_at_gmail.com>

>
> Sorry, I was looking the trace files in the bdump directory.
>
> When I checked the traces at udump, I found following in some of them:
> *
> Process P003 is dead (pid=25576, state=3):
> kxfpg1srv
> could not start local P003
> *** 2009-04-15 14:03:56.381
> Process P003 is dead (pid=25580, state=3):
> kxfpg1srv
> could not start local P003
> *** 2009-04-15 14:03:57.384
> Process P003 is dead (pid=25582, state=3):
> kxfpg1srv
> could not start local P003
> *** 2009-04-15 14:03:58.387
> Process P003 is dead (pid=25584, state=3):
> kxfpg1srv
> could not start local P003
> *** 2009-04-15 14:03:59.417
> Process P003 is dead (pid=25586, state=3):
> kxfpg1srv
> could not start local P003*
>
>
>
> Does this ring a bell?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_roughsea.com>wrote:
>
>> The wording of your post ("I really dont see anything in the trace
>> file") makes me think that you are looking in the alert file or
>> something similar. You should look for .trc files under the directory
>> defined as "user_dump_dest" in you parameter files (cd ../udump from the
>> directory where you alert file is located should take you to the right
>> place).
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> S Faroult
>>
>> Saad Khan wrote:
>> > Hi fellows,
>> >
>> > I've oracle 10g (10.2.0.4) running at Linux with partitioning option.
>> > The users were running pipelines while I was informed that the they
>> > got crashed. When I checked the alert log file, I could see the
>> > following error messages:
>> >
>> >
>> > /Wed Apr 15 14:03:54 2009
>> > Process P003 died, see its trace file
>> > Wed Apr 15 14:03:55 2009
>> > Process P004 died, see its trace file
>> > Wed Apr 15 14:03:56 2009
>> > Process P003 died, see its trace file
>> > Process P003 died, see its trace file
>> > Process P003 died, see its trace file
>> > Process P003 died, see its trace file
>> > Wed Apr 15 14:04:02 2009
>> > Process P005 died, see its trace file
>> > Process P005 died, see its trace file
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > /Now, the wierd thing is, I really dont see anything in the trace file
>> > that could point anything that could have caused this.
>> >
>> > I checked my parameters and found that the PROCESSES parameter was set
>> > to a very low value (i.e.150). Now I've increased it to 400 but this
>> > is just a shot in dark. I'm totally unsure if this could be the reason.
>> >
>> > Can anyone please help me? Its quite urgent.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> > Khan.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>

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