Re: listener and /tmp

Vsevolod,

/tmp and swap space are (always?) the same. Take a look at /var/adm/messages. There you probably will find errors like this:

Nov 11 11:04:09 xxx.domain.nl unix: WARNING: Sorry, no swap space to grow stack for pid 26166 (httpd)
Nov 11 11:04:10 xxx.domain.nl last message repeated 6 times

It's not a good idea to just start changing permissions. Let your system administrator deal with the problem.

kind regards,

Ivan

Vsevolod Afanassiev wrote:

> I found that if /tmp is full, Oracle listener cannot start
> a new process. At the same time, if I change permissions on /tmp
> so UNIX user "oracle" cannot read/write/cd /tmp, the listener works OK.
> Isn't it strange? I mean, if the listener needs to create a
> temporary file in /tmp when establishing a connection, then persmissions
> should affect it in the same way as /tmp being full.
>
> Environment:
> Sun Solaris 8, Oracle 8.1.6.2.0
>
> Is there any way to tell listener not to use /tmp and use another directory?
> I tried setting env. variables TMP and TMPDIR, but it did not help.
>
> Thanks,
> Sev
Received on Thu Nov 14 2002 - 00:26:13 CST