RE: 2G trace files

I believe that is a limitation with that procedure.

If you are tracing your own session, use

Alter session set max_dump_file_size=unlimited;

Otherwise set it at the system level during your trace

Alter system set max_dump_file_size=unlimited;

If necessary, reset it after your large trace has completed.

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Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>>> If I set max_dump_file_size greater than 2G I get an error.

Perhaps I should be more specific:

    sys.dbms_system.set_int_param_in_session(p_sid, p_serial#,       'max_dump_file_size', 'unlimited'); gives:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character to number conversion error

    sys.dbms_system.set_int_param_in_session(p_sid, p_serial#,       'max_dump_file_size', 2147483647 + 1); gives:
ORA-01426: numeric overflow

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:24, Tim Fleury wrote:
> Set the dump file size to unlimited.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:49 AM
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>
>
> I'm tracing a session with 10046 event level 8. Here's the method I
> use:
>
> sys.dbms_system.set_sql_trace_in_session( p_sid, p_serial#, TRUE
);
> sys.dbms_system.set_bool_param_in_session(p_sid, p_serial#,
> 'timed_statistics', true);
> /* Max dump file size is 2G */
> sys.dbms_system.set_int_param_in_session(p_sid, p_serial#,
> 'max_dump_file_size', 2147483647);
> sys.dbms_system.set_ev(p_sid, p_serial#, 10046, p_level, '');
>
> If I set max_dump_file_size greater than 2G I get an error. But with
> trace level 8, I'm easily overrunning this limit. How do you guys get

> around this?
>
> BTW - Just got Optimizing Oracle Performance last night and if I
> didn't have to work so much I would have read it through by now.
> Maybe I'll take tomorrow off.
>
> Richard Quintin, DBA
> Information Systems & Computing, DBMS
> Virginia Tech
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