Re: Reading a file# that doesn't exist

Tempfiles are numbered from (DB_FILES+1) upward...

Quoting Henry Poras <henry_at_itasoftware.com>:

> I have a session on a development system that is waiting on 'db file
> sequential read'.
>
> It has been waiting for ~6000 seconds (state=WAITING).
>
> File# (p1) is 201, yet the database only has file#'s from 1-19 (select file#
> from v$datafile).
>
> That explains the long wait. It's trying to read from a non-existent file. I
> can't connect to strace (attach: ptrace (PTRACE_ATTACH, .): Operation not
> permitted).
>
> Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas where to look? Just reboot and try
> for the best?
>
> Henry

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