Could you be running into a platform-specific limitation? 1073741824 could be too large, so it ignores the command and leaves the default of 5m. Daniel Fink Thomas Jeff wrote: > Any ideas why the following does not work? I don't get an error > message, but the trace > file size will always max out at the database default of 5M. > EXEC sys.dbms_system.set_int_param_in_session (&&sid, &&serial, > 'max_dump_file_size', 1073741824); > > Thanks. > > -------------------------------------------- > Jeffery D Thomas > DBA > Thomson Information Services > Thomson, Inc. > > Email: jeff.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Indy DBA Master Documentation available at: > http://gkmqp.tce.com/tis_dba > -------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------