Re: core dump in oracle

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 13 Oct 2005 06:55:58 GMT
Message-ID: <1129186557.94470@proxy.dienste.wien.at>

[Swapnil's Oracle server dumps core]

Swapnil <kadamswapnil_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> We do have support contract
> what i wonder is that is it an oracle problem which needs to be
> patched or its just another
> set up issue.

A correctly written program should not core dump under any circumstances, except extreme conditions like hardware failure. It is ok for a program to terminate with an error message if it encounters an error condition, but it is not ok to dump.

This is certainly a bug.

I would open a TAR - make sure that you include as much information as possible:

Set MAX_DUMP_FILE_SIZE to UNLIMITED and turn on server tracing.
Set 'ulimit -c unlimited'

When the server has core dumped, upload the trace files and the core dump with the TAR.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 01:55:58 CDT