Re: log file sync waits / slow response time at log switches
- From: Mayen.Shah@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: gcunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:27:03 -0500
Gerald,
log switch will not complete until active (current) log is archived to all
destinations (optional and mandatory). If your remote archiving is slow,
it will slowdown log switch and database at primary site may appear hung.
you may use following parameter to achieve what you want.
_LOG_ARCHIVE_CALLOUT='LOCAL_FIRST=TRUE'
Please refer to metalink notes 3227858.8 and 403979.1
HTH
Mayen Shah
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log file sync waits / slow response time at log switches
Hi all,
My 10046 tracing is showing a lot of "log file sync" waits. Also, users
log files (processes are doing DML) are showing
spikes in response time that match the times of the log switches.
This is a physical Data Guard implementation with 1 primary / 1 standby.
Oracle 9.2.0.8 64-bit on Solaris.
From the alert log, it appears that Oracle is waiting until the redo
information has been written to the standby site
before it switches the primary's redo logs.
log_archive_dest_3 was set to mandatory, so I tried setting it to optional
(see line "c" below). This didn't appear to
have any effect. Here is an excerpt of my primary alert log:
===
(a) Thu Feb 14 17:39:23 2008
LGWR: Completed archiving log 2 thread 1 sequence 155723
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3: 'STDBY_DG'
LNS0 started with pid=249, OS id=9556
(b) Thu Feb 14 17:39:32 2008
LGWR: Beginning to archive log 3 thread 1 sequence 155724
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 155274
Current log# 3 seq# 155724 mem# 0:
/dbdata_11/oradata/prod/redo03_1.log
Current log# 3 seq# 155724 mem# 1:
/dbdata_12/oradata/prod/redo03_2.log
Thu Feb 14 17:39:32 2008
ARC1: Evaluating archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 155723
ARC1: Archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3: Previously completed
ARC1: Beginning to archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 155723
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2:
'/dbdata_15/oradata/prod/ARCHIVE/arch_1_155723.arc'
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1:
'/dbdata_10/oradata/prod/ARCHIVE/arch_1_155723.arc'
Thu Feb 14 17:39:45 2008
ARC1: Completed archiving log 2 thread 1 sequence 155723
Thu Feb 14 17:41:45 2008
(c) ALTER SYSTEM SET log_archive_dest_3='service=STDBY_DG LGWR ASYNC=20480
AFFIRM OPTIONAL REOPEN=30' SCOPE=MEMORY;
(d) Thu Feb 14 17:43:17 2008
LGWR: Completed archiving log 3 thread 1 sequence 155724
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3: 'STDBY_DG'
LNS0 started with pid=221, OS id=12045
(e) Thu Feb 14 17:43:35 2008
LGWR: Beginning to archive log 1 thread 1 sequence 155725
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 155275
Current log# 1 seq# 155725 mem# 0:
/dbdata_16/oradata/prod/redo01_1.log
Current log# 1 seq# 155725 mem# 1:
/dbdata_17/oradata/prod/redo01_2.log
===
Questions:
- I believe the time from a-to-b and d-to-e is where my users are waiting,
because Oracle hasn't switched the redo log
yet. Is this true? These 2 waits are 9 seconds and 18 seconds! Sometimes
they are longer, or shorter, but this is typical.
- I thought when I changed dest_3 to optional, Oracle would switch the
local/primary first, then do the "standby stuff".
Why isn't it?
- Is the time from a-to-b and c-to-d for creating the new LNS0 process? If
so, is there any way to have a persistent LNS0 process?
- Is there any way to force the local/primary redo to switch *before*
doing any standby work?
Thanks very much for any help!
Jerry
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