wierd dbms_alert problem continued

From: <rgaffuri_at_cox.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:49:48 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D114B.20030925134948@fatcity.com>

Oracle did a memory dump to udump which grew to 3.4 GBs. Any idea why? I thought memory dumps went to the cdump directory.

Shutdown immediate didnt work. It just hung. So we did a shutdown abort. Everything is fine. Im just concerned. All the procedure did was the following:

pseudocode

procedure blah is

begin

throw exception

when others then

dbms_Alert.signal(constant that is not registered) dbms_output.
end;
/
clearly it hung on alert since we didnt commit. any idea why killing it caused this problem?

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