Oracle.exe grows and grows tdaily till the system must be restarted

Question

Hello,
I must restart the XE almost daily because oracle.exe grow and grow (from about 300M at the begining till more than 1G). the system is slowly and slowly.
Instalaltion on Windows 2000 SP4 was witout any errors
there are not default parameters (alertXE.log)
Fri Sep 15 05:24:00 2006
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Picked latch-free SCN scheme 2
Using LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_10 parameter default value as USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
Autotune of undo retention is turned on.
IMODE=BR
ILAT =18
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
ksdpec: called for event 13740 prior to event group initialization
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 10.2.0.1.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
processes = 150
sessions = 170
cpu_count = 1
shared_pool_size = 130023424
__large_pool_size = 16777216
large_pool_size = 16777216
java_pool_size = 41943040
control_files = D:\ORAXE\ORADATA\XE\CONTROL.DBF
__db_cache_size = 113246208
db_cache_size = 113246208
compatible = 10.2.0.1.0
log_archive_start = FALSE
log_archive_format = XE_%s_%r_%t.arc
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 16
db_recovery_file_dest = D:\oraxe\app\oracle\flash_recovery_area
db_recovery_file_dest_size= 53687091200
fast_start_mttr_target = 0
undo_management = AUTO
undo_tablespace = UNDO
undo_retention = 3600
O7_DICTIONARY_ACCESSIBILITY= FALSE
remote_login_passwordfile= EXCLUSIVE
dispatchers = (PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=XEXDB)
session_cached_cursors = 180
job_queue_processes = 10
audit_file_dest = D:\ORAXE\APP\ORACLE\ADMIN\XE\ADUMP
background_dump_dest = D:\ORAXE\APP\ORACLE\ADMIN\XE\BDUMP
user_dump_dest = D:\ORAXE\APP\ORACLE\ADMIN\XE\UDUMP
max_dump_file_size = 20000000
core_dump_dest = D:\ORAXE\APP\ORACLE\ADMIN\XE\CDUMP
sort_area_size = 1048576
db_name = XE
open_cursors = 300
os_authent_prefix =
star_transformation_enabled= FALSE
query_rewrite_enabled = FALSE
pga_aggregate_target = 251658240
statistics_level = TYPICAL
aq_tm_processes = 1
Can anyone help please?
regards and Thanks
Jacek

Answer 1

I had something similar with 9i a long time ago. I was just using it locally, but it repeatedly kept trying to access the internet, but was blocked, so it kept retrying and writing to the alert log until it grew so big that it filled the hard drive. You might check your files and see exactly what is growing, check your alert log, then deal with the problem, by either disabling something or granting access or whatever is appropriate.