Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Disabling cursor trace

Sometime last year I had blogged about unshared cursors and an event to trace the same here
http://el-caro.blogspot.com/search?q=cursor+trace


Well after you set the trace on and have got the required information you would obviously want to turn it off.

The command to do the same is

alter system set events 'immediate trace name cursortrace level 2147483648, addr 1';

However this does not work as I realized today when I was diagnosing multiple versions created for pl/sql procedure calls with ref cursors as arguments and the trace almost filled up my udump. New sessions spawned have entries such as the below
for any cursor executed.

CUR#2 XSC 0xxxxxxxx CHILD#0 CI 0xxxxxxx CTX (nil)

To fix this issue you need to apply the fix for unpublished bug

5555371 NO WAY TO TURN OFF TRACE AFTER SETTING CURSORTRACE EVENT

on top of 10.2.0.x

Another way to disable the trace would be to restart the instance.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

We had a case when we traced a session with event 10046 but unfortunately our dba removed by accident the trace file from udump directory with "rm" unix command. I am wondering if is any way to ask for another 10045 event and trace file without killing (or disconnect the session)

Thank you in advance,
khair