Re: Re: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-19 Thread Tanel Poder
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 6:24 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: Tempfile weirdness funny how my previous email seems to have been truncated where I put three dots [ie , "."] tosignifiy 3 lines.Resend :For a critical database where I want to be SURE that the file system has en

Fwd: Re: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-19 Thread Hemant K Chitale
funny how my previous email seems to have been truncated where I put three dots [ie , "."] to signifiy 3 lines. Resend : For a critical database where I want to be SURE that the file system has enough space for the TempFile, I run a large SELECT * FROM DBA_SOURCE UNION SELECT * FROM DBA_SOURCE U

Re: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Hemant K Chitale
For a critical database where I want to be SURE that the file system has enough space for the TempFile, I run a large SELECT * FROM DBA_SOURCE UNION SELECT * FROM DBA_SOURCE UNION

Re: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
It also can be caused by bad sectors or other hardware errors, but I'd bet on sparse file problem as you described. When I create temp tablespaces, I either copy the tempfile into another filename and then rename to original using cp, that way the file isn't sparse anymore, thus no problems using i

Re: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-17 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
We also ran into the IO error situation on a few of our 9i R2 databases using TEMPfiles. DBAs forgot that the file system contained those tempfiles and created other datafiles on those. We are now considering using dedicated file system naming convention that will hold TEMPfiles. We already have