I've seen a similar situation on HP-UX where all trace files were being sent to rdbms/log. Check out Metalink Note 283579.1. It may help solve your issue. Justis Greg Norris wrote: >On Apr 11, 2005 12:24 PM, Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>Does this still happen if you set in the spfile and then restart the >>database? >> >> > >Unfortunately, I'm not able to bounce the database at this time. It >was last started using a spfile, however, with the exact same setting >that's currently at issue. > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l