Hello,
>From time to time, my Oracle RDBMS shadow process in a production database
crash and produce HUGE (~360Mb) core dumps. At this rate, my disks fill
pretty fast and that could potentially bring my whole applications DOWN
during a "shaky" weekend or night.
I was wondering if there is a way to prevent core dump creation for a
specific user (in my case the 'oracle' user). Oracle procedes by creating a
directory called 'ora_xxxxx' (where xxx=pid of the failing process) in a
parametrized location and puts the 'core' file in this directory.
I tried to tell oracle to create his core dump directories and files in
/dev/null, but /dev/null is not a directory, you cannot create the ora_xxx
directory in /dev/null so there is no way of throwing the dumps in the bit
bucket.
Any help would be appreciated.
Guy Dallaire
dallaire_at_total.net
"God only knows if god exists"
Received on Fri Mar 07 1997 - 21:26:34 NZDT