Sorry, I was looking the trace files in the bdump directory. When I checked the traces at udump, I found following in some of them: * Process P003 is dead (pid=25576, state=3): kxfpg1srv could not start local P003 *** 2009-04-15 14:03:56.381 Process P003 is dead (pid=25580, state=3): kxfpg1srv could not start local P003 *** 2009-04-15 14:03:57.384 Process P003 is dead (pid=25582, state=3): kxfpg1srv could not start local P003 *** 2009-04-15 14:03:58.387 Process P003 is dead (pid=25584, state=3): kxfpg1srv could not start local P003 *** 2009-04-15 14:03:59.417 Process P003 is dead (pid=25586, state=3): kxfpg1srv could not start local P003* Does this ring a bell? On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Stephane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > The wording of your post ("I really dont see anything in the trace > file") makes me think that you are looking in the alert file or > something similar. You should look for .trc files under the directory > defined as "user_dump_dest" in you parameter files (cd ../udump from the > directory where you alert file is located should take you to the right > place). > > HTH > > S Faroult > > Saad Khan wrote: > > Hi fellows, > > > > I've oracle 10g (10.2.0.4) running at Linux with partitioning option. > > The users were running pipelines while I was informed that the they > > got crashed. When I checked the alert log file, I could see the > > following error messages: > > > > > > /Wed Apr 15 14:03:54 2009 > > Process P003 died, see its trace file > > Wed Apr 15 14:03:55 2009 > > Process P004 died, see its trace file > > Wed Apr 15 14:03:56 2009 > > Process P003 died, see its trace file > > Process P003 died, see its trace file > > Process P003 died, see its trace file > > Process P003 died, see its trace file > > Wed Apr 15 14:04:02 2009 > > Process P005 died, see its trace file > > Process P005 died, see its trace file > > > > > > > > /Now, the wierd thing is, I really dont see anything in the trace file > > that could point anything that could have caused this. > > > > I checked my parameters and found that the PROCESSES parameter was set > > to a very low value (i.e.150). Now I've increased it to 400 but this > > is just a shot in dark. I'm totally unsure if this could be the reason. > > > > Can anyone please help me? Its quite urgent. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Khan. > > > > >