Oracle Audio Technologies ORACLE9I B10508-01 User Manual

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Oracle9i Installation Guide Release 2 (9.2.0.2) for HP Alpha OpenVMS

The following components are included on the product CD-ROM:

Release 2 (9.2.0.2)

Release 2 (9.2.0.2)

In order to take full advantage of the latest OpenVMS CPU and compiler 
optimizations in Oracle software products, Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2.0.2) and 
associated Oracle9i Release 2-based products will require HP OpenVMS 
AlphaServers with EV56 or later generation CPUs.  AlphaServers with earlier 
generation CPUs will see a performance degradation.  Refer to Note 181307.1 on 
MetaLink for a list of affected models and for instructions on how to identify the 
CPU model number.

The following changes and enhancements are unique to this release of Oracle9i for 
HP OpenVMS:

In releases prior to Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2.0.2), when one of the background 
processes terminated abruptly with an access violation, no useful information was 
readily available regarding the cause for termination.  For troubleshooting, certain 
actions needed to be taken, and the crash needed to be reproduced.  Starting with 
this release, by default, an image dump will be created when a background process 
aborts.  If you do not want this feature enabled, you can turn it off using the 
following commands:

$ define/system ORA_<

>_<

>_DMP FALSE

$ <start the instance and open the database>

Example:

$ define/system ORA_PROD_LMD0_DMP FALSE

$ sqlplus/nolog

SQL> connect / as sysdba

SQL> startup

Please note that this change has no effect on normal daily production behavior.  
Oracle Corporation recommends that you do not define the dump logical.