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Huge core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs [message #608352]

Wed, 19 February 2014 00:22

sandba00
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Registered: February 2014

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Hi,

I find a core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs of size 13G. Its in solaris environment.
Os- Solaris SPARC T5140
Oracle version - 11.2.0.1 .

Please help me to understand and what might have caused this file to grow to such a huge size and is it safe to remove this file. Now its not growing.

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Re: Huge core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs [message #608421 is a reply to message #608352]

Wed, 19 February 2014 09:38

LKBrwn_DBA
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Registered: July 2003
Location: WPB, FL

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If you have exhausted reviewing the alert and other logs and still do not know where it came from, then you can remove it because there is no point in keeping a mystery core dump forever.

[Updated on: Wed, 19 February 2014 12:48] by Moderator

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Re: Huge core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs [message #608426 is a reply to message #608421]

Wed, 19 February 2014 09:50

BlackSwan
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Registered: January 2009
Location: SoCal

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Post results from OS command below

ls -ltr $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/

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Re: Huge core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs [message #608438 is a reply to message #608426]

Wed, 19 February 2014 12:33

sandba00
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Registered: February 2014

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Hi,

Does removing this core file, affects anything else... I did not see anything from alert log file during feb 6 2013.

-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 2.8K May 15 2009 init.ora
-rw------- 1 oracle dba 13G Feb 6 2013 core

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Re: Huge core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs [message #608439 is a reply to message #608438]

Wed, 19 February 2014 12:37

BlackSwan
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If you have no intention to sending it onto MOS for analysis, then just remove it.

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Re: Huge core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs [message #608440 is a reply to message #608438]

Wed, 19 February 2014 12:44

sandba00
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Registered: February 2014

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Hi,

Recently I got an alert log of 2013 and found the following.

1. The db was aborted due to some users killed the smon/pmon process and it was trying to restart.
2. After restart, the alert log started flooding with below error message.

oradism creation failed for unknown reasons 0 8 100
WARNING: -------------------------------
WARNING: oradism did not start up correctly.
Dynamic ISM can not be locked.----------------------------------------
oradism creation failed for unknown reasons 0 8 100
WARNING: -------------------------------
WARNING: oradism did not start up correctly.
Dynamic ISM can not be locked.----------------------------------------

I went through the following link and found that it was due to permission issue.
http://somireddy.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/warning-oradism-did-not-start-up-correctly/

I guess, I can remove the core file .

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Re: Huge core file in ORACLE_HOME/dbs [message #608441 is a reply to message #608440]

Wed, 19 February 2014 12:47

sandba00
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Registered: February 2014

Junior Member

Thanks to everyone who took their time to respond me.

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