All, I am about to open a TAR...painfully. Had a database (server?) crash a 2AM. Further sadness, the node/instance that crashed hung the other RAC node/instance...could not pull of the RAC reconfiguration...a whole other issue. One crash leads to another crash/hang :o|) I would like to get comments on the true meaning of "SIGBUS", "SIGSEGV", "...physical address", "...Address not mapped". I have always believed these to be Oracle/OS memory related issues? Thanks in advance, Chris Marquez Oracle DBA Errors in file /o01/app/oracle/admin/orcl/bdump/orcl2_j001_22478.trc: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [kcbgtcr()+10562] [SIGBUS] [Non-existent physical address] [0x2C0AC00E] [] [] Thu May 19 02:00:08 2005 Errors in file /o01/app/oracle/admin/orcl/bdump/orcl2_diag_541.trc: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [kghalf()+924] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object] [0x4001281] [] [] Thu May 19 02:00:13 2005 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l