Hi all We are having some weird and wonderfulls with our new machine, we use to be a on E10K, all nice and stable. They moved the database onto an E25K 2 weeks ago and since then have been having very weird problems, below is the Sun configuration and also the Oracle init file. We have been having CPU spiking if that is what you can call it, load up to 80 on a couple of occasions. This sometimes happen when the backup/RMAN process starts, sometimes when Netbackup does a totally independent file system backup. Any ideas? Thinking is that some patch is required or something that was just missed? All help appreciated. ------ Init File db_name = "pspif1" instance_name = pspif1 service_names = pspif1 compatible=9.2.0 background_dump_dest = /u02/admin/pspif1/bdump control_files = ("/u03/oradata/pspif1/controlfile01.pspif1", "/u04/oradata/pspif1/controlfile02.pspif1", "/u05/oradata/pspif1/ controlfile03.pspif1") core_dump_dest = /u02/admin/pspif1/cdump db_block_buffers = 140000 db_block_size = 8192 db_file_multiblock_read_count = 8 hash_area_size = 12000000 java_pool_size = 20000K job_queue_processes = 10 #job_queue_interval = 30 large_pool_size = 39321600 log_archive_dest_1 = "location=/u02/archive/pspif1" log_archive_start = true log_archive_format = pspif1_%t_%s_.arc #changed by Colin log_buffer = 2097152 log_checkpoint_interval = 9999999 log_checkpoint_timeout = 1800 max_enabled_roles = 80 # mts_dispatchers = "(PROTOCOL=TCPS)(PRE=oracle.aurora.server.SGiopServer)" open_cursors = 2000 optimizer_index_caching = 80 optimizer_index_cost_adj = 80 optimizer_mode = choose #changed by Colin session_cached_cursors = 150 os_authent_prefix = "" processes = 2000 remote_login_passwordfile = exclusive sga_max_size=3000M shared_pool_size=838860800 sga_max_size=3000M shared_pool_size=838860800 shared_pool_reserved_size = 60M pre_page_sga = true sort_area_retained_size = 2000000 sort_area_size = 2000000 timed_statistics = FALSE user_dump_dest = /u02/admin/pspif1/udump AQ_TM_PROCESSES = 1 utl_file_dir = '*' undo_management=AUTO undo_retention=2500 undo_tablespace=UNDOTBS1 #db_writer_processes=2 query_rewrite_enabled=true query_rewrite_integrity=trusted event="10932 trace name context level 32768" ------ Sun/Solaris Config Oracle version 9.2.0.4.0 Sun Solaris 8 patch level 117350-02 /etc/system settings: set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=8589934592 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=1775 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=1675 set semsys:seminfo_semmni=1775 set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=1750 set semsys:seminfo_semmns=65735 set semsys:seminfo_semopm=1475 set semsys:seminfo_semvmx=32767 set semsys:seminfo_semmap=1675 set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=1775 set semsys:seminfo_semume=1005 Other: 72 CPU's 144 Gb Memory George ________________________________________________ George Leonard Oracle Database Administrator New Dawn Technologies @ Wesbank E-mail:gleonard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx You Have The Obligation to Inform One Honestly of the risk, And As a Person You Are Committed to Educate Yourself to the Total Risk In Any Activity! Once Informed & Totally Aware of the Risk, Every Fool Has the Right to Kill or Injure Themselves as They See Fit! -----Original Message----- From: Alexandre Gorbatchev [mailto:agorbatchev@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:08 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time. Just found DBMS_REPAIR.REBUILD_FREELISTS - seems that it could fill new freelists with free blocks. You are right about updates - I didn't make distinctions between update and insert. In addition there is BLOBs that can be extended, but it's rare and we have hardly any migrated/chained rows. Regards, Alex From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>@freelists.org on 27-07-2004 08:07 AST Please respond to oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: RE: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time. Please explain what you believe happens when you change the freelists for an existing table. I do not believe information regarding freelists is stored in individual blocks, but rather freelists are lists of blocks queued up for new inserts. Are you thinking of initial transactions and maximum transactions? Further, I'm a bit confused that you're having freelist troubles due to heavy update (unless you include insert in the generic "update" as opposed to making a distinction between insert, update, and delete.) I suppose that if the updates are something like a huge expansion of a row by putting a giant lob into a column, then freelists might be called for in updates by row migration and/or row chaining. If you routinely expand rows greatly, you like have a different design consideration to consider re-tooling before you spend a lot of time reorganizing. good luck! mwf -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alexandre Gorbatchev Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:09 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time. Tanel, Yes, PCTUSED and PCTFREE needs to be corrected as well. Yes, sure, we do have RAC. But even without RAC we experienced some problems with low FREELISTS on heavily updated tables/indexes. Changing it without reorg. would affect only new blocks. We need to change FREELIST GROUPS and I was planning to set it higher than number of nodes we have now in anticipation of additional nodes. Thanks for warning of the "side effect" for setting several freelist groups - we have to research on it. We can't easily partition some of the tables. I wonder what other options are besides ASSM. You've correctly pointed out the problem with IO distribution. That's another reason for reorganization. Thanks for your points, Alex From: Tanel Põder <tanel.poder.003@xxxxxxx>@freelists.org on 27-07-2004 12:44 ZE3 Please respond to oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: Re: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time. > By the way, when is the lock required - in the beginning or in the end? I've not tested it, but probably in the end, when you switch your newly created table instead of the old one. > I move the table for several reasons: > 1.) CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT produces the table which is much smaller > (sometimes 2-3 times). We are trying to reduce the space usage with it. So > it seems the tables are space. This seems to be an issue of incorrectly configured PCTFREE and PCTUSED. If you analyzed the table over time and checked the average free space in blocks (and rowcounts+rowlens) you might get closer whats the real issue here. In default configuration the tables PCTUSED is 40 for example, meaning that up to 60% of the block contents may remain empty and completely unused if the space usage doesn't fall below PCTUSED... > 2.) Change storage clause - FREELIST, FREELIST GROUP or move to ASSM (not > sure, because it seems there are several bugs that we might hit in our > environment) You can change FREELISTS online without reorg. You shouldn't normally use FREELIST GROUPS if you're not in OPS or RAC evnironment. Freelist groups have the problem, that the processes which PID's map to another freelist group, don't see free blocks in other freelist groups, thus potentially wasting space in DML intensive environment. So if you're not seeing heavy segment header block contention due freelist updates in your database, you shouldn't consider freelist groups (and even if you see, then there are other alternatives to consider, like partitioning, etc.) ASSM - again don't move to it if you don't have a RAC environment (with continuously changing number of nodes) or you don't have special conditions like having rows with extremely varying sizes inserted to your table etc.. > 3.) Physical layout reorganization. Some tables are in wrong tablespaces. This doesn't seem like a serious problem, given that your databases availability is more important (unless you don't have serious bottlenecks due improperly balanced IO) Tanel. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author and not those of the FirstRand Banking Group or its management. 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