Re: How to free inodes in Linux without killing processes

Thanks to all

Alex

2010/7/14 Tanel Poder <tanel_at_poderc.com>

> Hi,
>
> You can truncate the file using "*> **file.trc" *that has usually worked
> for me.
>
> The other option is to delete the file, then connect to the background
> process which holds the file descriptor open using oradebug and issue an
> ORADEBUG CLOSE_TRACE *however* I wouldn't connect to critical background
> processes with oradebug at all, even if you're running simple commands like
> close trace.
>
> So, truncating the file is a better option...
>
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> Tanel Poder
> http://blog.tanelpoder.com
> http://tech.e2sn.com
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:32 PM, amonte <ax.mount_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> One of databases (10.2.0.4) is filling up it's bdump, cdump and udump
>> directories, deleting the files does not free any space because the inode is
>> still being hold by many processes.
>>
>> One way to free the space is killing the processes however pmon, smon are
>> holidng the files so killing them instance will sink. I wonder if there is
>> any better way to handle this? Or any way to prevent this happening (for
>> example instead of deleting echo /dev/null to the file? my experience with
>> this is that it does not work)
>>
>>
>> This is Linux x86-64
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
>

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