Re: enq: WL - contention; plus kcrrrcp

  • From: Taral Desai <taral.desai@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:15:40 -0500

It's related to

buffer cache operation such as quiesce operation , managing fast start IO
target, parallel recovery operation , etc

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Gus Spier <gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It simply has to be a Friday ...
>
> Solaris 10
> Oracle 10.2.0.2 EE
>
> A member of the end-user community calls in a trouble ticket, "The database
> is going awfully slow!"  No further information or specifics are available
> ... just "the database is going awfully slow!"
>
> addmrpt alerts us to an issue "enq: WL - contention waits in service
> SYS$BACKGROUND" and follows that up with an issue "kcrrrcp waits in
> SYS$BACKGROUND"
>
> A quick query to V$EVENT_NAMES tells me that enq: WL refers to log writing
> (do I assume this archiving the REDO logs?) ... kcrrrcp is simply listed as
> "Other".
>
> Google has been able to offer very little: a brief reference in our
> archives here that deal with an RMAN bug.
>
> Has anyone seen these types of things before?  Is there some other
> documentation that I should be looking in?  Wasn't there once upopn a time a
> Working Aid that decrypted all the kg*, kc*, kl* modules with at least a
> good guess about their function and usage.
>
> Any assistance will appreciated.
>
> regards,
> Gus
>



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Thanks & Regards,
Taral Desai

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