Re: unknown files in /tmp

From: ddf <oratune_at_msn.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <da0574c4-c283-4529-89aa-4eebc1c11858_at_o6g2000yql.googlegroups.com>



On Apr 8, 9:54 am, Frank Langelage <fr..._at_lafr.de> wrote:
> I'm running Oracle 11g EE 64bit on Solaris SPARC 10 for testing and
> developing purposes.
> $ORACLE_SID=11g.
>
> In directory /tmp I found some files I've never seen before:
> oracle   dba         8192 Apr  1 20:47 .SHMDJOXSHM_EXT_0_11g_1
> oracle   dba         8192 Apr  1 20:47 .SHMDJOXSHM_EXT_1_11g_1
> oracle   dba         8192 Apr  1 20:47 .SHMDJOXSHM_EXT_2_11g_1
> ...
> oracle   dba         8192 Apr  2 05:00 .SHMDJOXSHM_EXT_238_11g_1
> oracle   dba         8192 Apr  2 05:00 .SHMDJOXSHM_EXT_239_11g_1
> Some of these files were created on startup (April 1st), the other part
> on 5:00 the day after. No more files since then.
>
> Any clue where they come from and how to avoid them in the future?

Have you looked in the alert.log or queried X$DBGALERTEXT for shared memory-related messages? By the names these would appear to be generated by a shared memory daemon or MMON.

David Fitzjarrell Received on Wed Apr 08 2009 - 11:19:42 CDT

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