Oracle CORE files created

From: ALianto <Alianto_at_mincom.co.id>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:52:57 +0700
Message-ID: <37c5fe18@news1.us.ibm.net>

Hi everybody,

Does anybody know about core_xxxx files, like this :

drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 18 13:17 core_11229
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:01 core_13365
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:01 core_13368
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:01 core_13371
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:02 core_13374
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:02 core_13377
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:02 core_13380
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:03 core_13392
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:03 core_13395
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:03 core_13398
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:03 core_13401
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:04 core_13404
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:04 core_13407
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:04 core_13410
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:04 core_13413
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:05 core_13437
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:06 core_13440
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:19 core_13645
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:19 core_13648
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:19 core_13651
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:20 core_13656
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:20 core_13659
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:20 core_13662
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:21 core_13665
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:21 core_13668
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:28 core_13682
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:28 core_13685
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:28 core_13688
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:28 core_13691
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 26 00:28 core_13694
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Jun 24 00:08 core_17175
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 16 00:07 core_22138
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Jul  8 00:03 core_26745
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 19 08:57 core_6432
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 19 08:58 core_6497
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 19 08:58 core_6513
drwxr-x---   2 oracle     dba             96 Aug 19 09:01 core_6969

Why does Oracle create this file ? Is this a serious problem or not ?

How to make Oracle stop to create these files ?

Thanks,

Alianto Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 21:52:57 CDT