Re: Trace file location

"DK" <dakight_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<eVQYc.67979$0o5.2035_at_bignews1.bellsouth.net>...
> I recently had a trace file that eventually got to 15gb before the
> ORACLE_HOME directory was maxed out at 100%. I've sent the trace file off
> to Oracle and set the max trace file to 5mb. However, I see that in 9i the
> bdump\cdump locations are dynamic parameters. If I move the bdump location
> to a non-consequential file system other than ORACLE_HOME will oracle have
> problems if it can't write to the file system because of space problems when
> attempting to generate a trace file??

I think Oracle may be very unhappy if it can't write to the alert log.  Or someone may be unhappy if they don't know what Oracle would have written.

jg

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