When the primary site looses connect to the standby site, how can I estimate that damn 30sec's LGWR stall time? I did a test as below. 1. make a procedure sp_insert at primary site: create or replace procedure sp_insert is i number; begin for i in 1..600000 loop insert into t_time(timestamp) values(sysdate); commit; --dbms_lock.sleep(seconds => 1); end loop; end sp_insert; 2.my initial parameters at primary site are: SQL> show parameter log_archive NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ log_archive_dest string log_archive_dest_1 string LOCATION=/oradata/ctsdb/archiv e log_archive_dest_10 string log_archive_dest_2 string SERVICE=CTSDB.STANDBY LGWR ASY NC NET_TIMEOUT=10 log_archive_dest_3 string log_archive_dest_4 string log_archive_dest_5 string log_archive_dest_6 string log_archive_dest_7 string NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ log_archive_dest_8 string log_archive_dest_9 string log_archive_dest_state_1 string enable log_archive_dest_state_10 string enable log_archive_dest_state_2 string enable log_archive_dest_state_3 string enable log_archive_dest_state_4 string enable log_archive_dest_state_5 string enable log_archive_dest_state_6 string enable log_archive_dest_state_7 string enable log_archive_dest_state_8 string enable NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ log_archive_dest_state_9 string enable log_archive_duplex_dest string log_archive_format string %t_%s.dbf log_archive_max_processes integer 2 log_archive_min_succeed_dest integer 1 log_archive_start boolean TRUE log_archive_trace integer 0 3. I ran sp_insert at primary site: SQL> exec sp_insert(); 4. When the network is ok, alertlog seems very good: ********************************* Thu Jan 6 14:00:32 2005 LGWR: Completed archiving log 3 thread 1 sequence 340 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2: 'CTSDB.STANDBY' LGWR: Beginning to archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 341 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 341 Current log# 2 seq# 341 mem# 0: /oradata/ctsdb/redo02.log Thu Jan 6 14:00:33 2005 ARC1: Evaluating archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 340 ARC1: Archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2: Previously completed ARC1: Beginning to archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 340 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/oradata/ctsdb/archive/1_340.dbf' ARC1: Completed archiving log 3 thread 1 sequence 340 ********************************* 5. After I unlugged the standby site's network and kept checking the alertlog at primary site: ********************************* Thu Jan 6 14:17:10 2005 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2: 'CTSDB.STANDBY' LGWR: Error 2 creating archivelog file 'CTSDB.STANDBY' Thu Jan 6 14:17:42 2005 Errors in file /export/home/oracle/app/oracle/admin/ctsdb/bdump/ctsdb_lgwr_416.trc: ORA-00002: Message 2 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=ORA LGWR: Completed archiving log 2 thread 1 sequence 344 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 344 Current log# 2 seq# 344 mem# 0: /oradata/ctsdb/redo02.log Thu Jan 6 14:17:42 2005 ARC1: Evaluating archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 343 ARC1: Beginning to archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 343 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/oradata/ctsdb/archive/1_343.dbf' Thu Jan 6 14:17:55 2005 kccrsz: expanded controlfile section 11 from 433 to 447 records requested to grow by 4 record(s); added 1 block(s) of records ARC1: Completed archiving log 3 thread 1 sequence 343 Thu Jan 6 14:19:49 2005 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2: 'CTSDB.STANDBY' LGWR: Error 2 creating archivelog file 'CTSDB.STANDBY' Thu Jan 6 14:20:21 2005 Errors in file /export/home/oracle/app/oracle/admin/ctsdb/bdump/ctsdb_lgwr_416.trc: ORA-00002: Message 2 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=ORA LGWR: Completed archiving log 1 thread 1 sequence 345 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 345 Current log# 1 seq# 345 mem# 0: /oradata/ctsdb/redo01.log Thu Jan 6 14:20:21 2005 ARC1: Evaluating archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 344 ARC1: Beginning to archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 344 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/oradata/ctsdb/archive/1_344.dbf' ARC1: Completed archiving log 2 thread 1 sequence 344 Thu Jan 6 14:21:55 2005 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2: 'CTSDB.STANDBY' LGWR: Error 2 creating archivelog file 'CTSDB.STANDBY' Thu Jan 6 14:22:26 2005 Errors in file /export/home/oracle/app/oracle/admin/ctsdb/bdump/ctsdb_lgwr_416.trc: ORA-00002: Message 2 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=ORA LGWR: Completed archiving log 3 thread 1 sequence 346 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 346 Current log# 3 seq# 346 mem# 0: /oradata/ctsdb/redo03.log Thu Jan 6 14:22:27 2005 ARC0: Evaluating archive log 1 thread 1 sequence 345 ARC0: Beginning to archive log 1 thread 1 sequence 345 Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/oradata/ctsdb/archive/1_345.dbf' ARC0: Completed archiving log 1 thread 1 sequence 345 ********************************* at this time(14:17:10-14:17:41, 14:19:49-14:20:21, 14:21:55-14:22:26, more than 30 seconds) all the dml at primary site is stalled, even the select operation on t_time table. After this test, I checked t_time table's data: SQL> select count(*) from t_time 2 where timestamp=to_date('2005-1-6 14:17:09','yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'); COUNT(*) ---------- 1842 SQL> select count(*) from t_time 2 where timestamp>=to_date('2005-1-6 14:17:10','yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') 3 and timestamp<=to_date('2005-1-6 14:17:41','yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'); COUNT(*) ---------- 0 SQL> select count(*) from t_time 2 where timestamp=to_date('2005-1-6 14:17:42','yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'); COUNT(*) ---------- 680 so, clearly, at 14:17:10 - 14:17:41, no data could insert into primary site. -- Kamus <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> 那么多1G的邮箱,我能用来干什么:-) A Oracle8i & 9i Certified DBA from China -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l