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File Descriptors Are Not Cleared And Grow Very High In Number (Doc ID 2541863.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 08, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A to N/A [Release 1.0]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

No of files descriptors keep growing.

# lsof | grep 'ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f.(deleted' | wc -l
75456

Sample output:

....

ora_p006_ 41351 oracle 1805uW REG 8,96 1024 1815249 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/787C3A7B04497C0FE053020AA8C0B299/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p006_ 41351 oracle 1806uW REG 8,96 1024 1815252 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/787C3A7B04497C0FE053020AA8C0B299/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p006_ 41351 oracle 1807uW REG 8,96 1024 1815257 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/7663AB48BA06033BE053020AA8C089B0/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p006_ 41351 oracle 1808uW REG 8,96 1024 1815262 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/787C3A7B04497C0FE053020AA8C0B299/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p006_ 41351 oracle 1809uW REG 8,96 1024 1815266 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/787C3A7B04497C0FE053020AA8C0B299/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p006_ 41351 oracle 1810uW REG 8,96 1024 1815271 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/787C3A7B04497C0FE053020AA8C0B299/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p006_ 41351 oracle 1811uW REG 8,96 1024 1815276 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/787C3A7B04497C0FE053020AA8C0B299/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p007_ 41357 oracle 264uW REG 8,96 1024 1727143 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/7F040530FA54035CE053020AA8C00965/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)
ora_p007_ 41357 oracle 265uW REG 8,96 1024 1801172 /u01/app/oracle/admin/ORCL/dpdump/7D76052273116C94E053020AA8C00994/ORA_DUMMY_FILE.f (deleted)

 

Cause

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