I think you want to do a manual rebalance. First you could check what ASM thinks what space each device within the diskgroup has (NOT just the diskgroup int total): select group_number, name, TOTAL_MB, FREE_MB from V$asm_disk_stat; If you see a device has no free space within the diskgroup, even if another device has space you will not be able to allocate extents in the diskgroup. If this is case run a manual rebalance: alter diskgroup DATA rebalance; You should then be able to see the rebalance occurring within v$asm_operation. cheers, jason. -- http://jarneil.wordpress.com 2009/3/24 Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> > Hi, > > We ran out of space in one of the ASM volume groups and we added space to > it: > > State Type Rebal Unbal Sector Block AU Total_MB Free_MB > Req_mir_free_MB Usable_file_MB Offline_disks Name > MOUNTED EXTERN N N 1024 4096 1048576 182240 > 20036 0 20036 0 DATA/ > > However, this extra space is not being recognized. I want to know if > rebalance operation is going on. When I query the v$asm_operation view I do > not get any response: > > 1* select * from v$asm_operation > SYS@+ASM> / > > no rows selected > > SYS@+ASM> > How can I tell if rebalance operation is going on. > > Here is last few lines from ASM init.ora: > > WARNING: allocation failure on disk DATA_0002 for file 4 xnum 0 > Tue Mar 24 13:50:46 2009 > Errors in file /xxx/oracle10/app/admin/+ASM/bdump/+asm_arb1_25860.trc: > ORA-15041: diskgroup space exhausted > Tue Mar 24 13:50:46 2009 > NOTE: stopping process ARB1 > NOTE: stopping process ARB6 > NOTE: stopping process ARB5 > NOTE: stopping process ARB2 > Tue Mar 24 13:50:46 2009 > WARNING: allocation failure on disk DATA_0006 for file 3 xnum 20 > Tue Mar 24 13:50:46 2009 > WARNING: allocation failure on disk DATA_0006 for file 6 xnum 0 > Tue Mar 24 13:50:46 2009 > Errors in file /xxx/oracle10/app/admin/+ASM/bdump/+asm_arb0_25858.trc: > ORA-15041: diskgroup space exhausted > Tue Mar 24 13:50:46 2009 > NOTE: stopping process ARB0 > Tue Mar 24 13:50:46 2009 > Errors in file /xxx/oracle10/app/admin/+ASM/bdump/+asm_arb3_25864.trc: > ORA-15041: diskgroup space exhausted > NOTE: stopping process ARB3 > NOTE: stopping process ARB4 > Tue Mar 24 13:50:49 2009 > WARNING: rebalance not completed for group 1/0xa1129969 (DATA) > Tue Mar 24 13:50:49 2009 > SUCCESS: rebalance completed for group 1/0xa1129969 (DATA) > NOTE: PST update: grp = 1 > NOTE: PST update: grp = 1 > Tue Mar 24 14:02:50 2009 > WARNING: allocation failure on disk DATA_0002 for file 374 xnum 1 > > > ver 10.2 > > Thanks, > Ram. > > >