what causes a memory dump?

From: <rgaffuri_at_cox.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:49:47 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D1307.20030926074947@fatcity.com>

i had one yesterday when i killed a process. Also, what parameter tells oracle where to dump?

why does oracle dump memory? It sucked up 3.4 GB of disk space and we had to do a 'shutdown abort'

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