/udump directoy too huge

smatsoso · 11-08-2007, 07:11 AM

Hi Guys,

I have oracle 10gR1 database running SUSE Linux Enterprise 9. My problems is the oracle directory called udump, which has graown too huge. I cannot either trim or delete it. It conaints too many trace file. How can I deal with it?

harry edwards · 11-20-2007, 05:19 PM

If you mean you get argument 'list to long' when for example you run the following 'rm <Path Here>/*.trc' . Then the solution is to perform a find and push each file found into rm. A example of this is:

find <Enter Path Here> -type f -name "*.trc" -exec rm {} \;

Note: Be careful, if you must the wrong path in you may delete files you want. I would suggest running the find on its own first to ensure it yields the expected result.

find <Enter Path Here> -type f -name "*.trc"

Ray

smatsoso · 11-21-2007, 01:37 AM

Hi Harry,

Thanks for your advice. But you know what? I have run this script before and it resulted in "fault segmentation" error message. The same script works very well in my test ennvironment. Probably because files in the udump directory are not as many. I was actually, planning to logrotate these trace files. But I doubt that it will work with the directoty of this magnitude.

pavan27 · 11-24-2007, 11:01 AM

Udump files are important files? try to delete old file which are before 6 months. if it is so important then take the backup of the folder/ or move the files or directories in to another file system and create a link which is pointing to new location.