The partition containing my Oracle 11g installation began to fill up with trace files and when I went looking for what are these I've found this disturbing post about how to disable the trace file generation.
The two related questions I have are:
- Can I simply delete these trace files from my FS w/o consequence ? (I know, if they apeared one should probably look at them.. but won't happen and the database has no production use whatsoever. Going to have to happen another time.)
- What should be done to prevent it from appearing again?
Best Answer
Yes, it's safe to delete them.
If you're running on Linux, set up logrotate to compress & then delete after a set period of time. Examples of Oracle logrotate configuration can be found here.