background tracefiles reset
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:40:42 -0500
Message-ID: <7ED53A68952D3B4C9540B4EFA5C76E3606D7EEAE_at_CWYMSX04.Corp.Acxiom.net>
Folks, is there any way to force Oracle background processes to close and re-open their trace files? As an example, say we've got 4 archiver processes with 4 trace files:
db_arc1_1234.trc db_arc2_1235.trc db_arc3_1236.trc db_arc4_1237.trc
Over time as the instance stays up and processes don't crash, these trace files grow. If we ever want to "clean them up", it'd be great to get those processes to close the file, then we'd copy, tar, gzip those files, then have the process open a new file (same name).
I could try copying the file while it's opened and then "cat /dev/null >db_arc1_1234.trc", but I'm reluctant to test this on production and I don't have anywhere to test this.
The reason this is an issue is we've got trace files that have grown large over time and previously we blindly removed these files. The problem is, since the processes had them opened, future writes couldn't be done and if there's a major crash (which we've had) no tracing gets written. Argg!
David C. Herring | DBA, Acxiom Database Services
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