Re: Core Dumps?

not oracle instance, just one of shadow processes

Telemachus wrote:

> Personally I never delete a core without peeking with adb or dbx or strings
> to see what coredumped - if its oracle you are (effectively) saying oracle
> crashes catastrophically 3 times a year.
> "Vladimir M. Zakharychev" <bob_at_dpsp-yes.com> wrote in message
> news:ahlobg$8g7$1_at_babylon.agtel.net...
> > Looks like you did :) You can safely delete them (unless you want to
> > investigate what caused them - in this case you will also need to locate
> > trace files corresponding to these core dumps, open a TAR with Oracle
> > Support and upload the whole thing to them so that they can dig through
> > them and possibly figure out what went wrong).
> >
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> > "Mark Lind" <marNOkSPAMlind_at_pacbell.net> wrote in message
> > news:Tt89PSNLru0cCOciXHKTZ9hsTOnP_at_4ax.com...
> > > These are infrequent, but maybe were never cleaned up. Based on the
> > > timestamp, it's about three times a year since 1999. They were all
> > > the same size except the more recent ones (which is probably because
> > > the core dump filled up the volume).
> > >
> > > Did I just answer my own question?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:25:02 -0700, Mark Lind
> > > <marNOkSPAMlind_at_pacbell.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >My /opt volume is close to being full, and I'm looking to make some
> > > >room. In my survey of the drive, I noticed several directories with
> > > >the following names:
> > > >
> > > >/opt/ORACLE/app/oracle/product/8.0.4/dbs/core_XXXX where XXXX is some
> > > >4-digit or 5-digit number. Each of these directories seems to have a
> > > >single file named "core" that's between 36MB and 106MB.
> > > >
> > > >Are those part of Oracle, or are those core dumps I can delete?
> > > >
> > > >Please no comments about how we need to upgrade to 9i. 8-)
> > > >
> > > >Mark Lind
> > > >Mark
> > > >
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Received on Thu Jul 25 2002 - 21:58:35 CDT