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Re: RE: 8.1.7 instance on Solaris periodically goes sluggish, then ha

From: <rgaffuri_at_cox.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:04:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005C77E5.20030728090425@fatcity.com>


what bugs are those?
>
> From: Jack van Zanen <JACK_at_quantsystems.nl>
> Date: 2003/07/28 Mon AM 11:09:30 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: RE: 8.1.7 instance on Solaris periodically goes sluggish, then ha
>
> Plus if you are on 8.1.7.3 you have several bugs that can cause hangs w/o
> alert log messages. (check metalink)
>
> Jack
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:04 PM
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> hangs...
>
>
> run statspack and check your top 5 wait events. you have some kind of
> bottleneck flairing up.
> >
> > From: "Paul Vincent" <Paul.Vincent_at_uce.ac.uk>
> > Date: 2003/07/28 Mon AM 09:39:30 EDT
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > Subject: 8.1.7 instance on Solaris periodically goes sluggish, then
> > hangs...
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > rather vague, this one, I'm afraid, but we're stumped for ideas.
> >
> > We have an Oracle 8.1.7 instance on a Sun Solaris setup, which we're
> > currently testing prior to going live. Every so often - 2 or 3 times a
> > week - the users phone to say the application has stopped responding.
> > They're waiting several minutes with no response. We find we can
> > usually fire up one or two tuning apps, such as TOAD or Quest's
> > Spotlight, but within a few minutes, these also stop responding. By
> > this time, even trying to fire up a SQL*Plus session from my PC just
> > hangs and hangs, without the login ever completing. We always end up
> > having to get the sysadmin to abort-shutdown Oracle and then restart
> > it. After which everything's fine - until the next time.
> >
> > I've checked the PROCESSES parameter, and this is set to 150 - way
> > above the maximum number of connections we've seen (around 40 or so).
> > Likewise SESSIONS and TRANSACTIONS parameters seem generously
> > adequate. The sysadmin says the server itself doesn't seem to be
> > having any problems. He can log in and run UNIX commands with no
> > apparent performance problems.
> >
> > Any ideas at all would be very welcome!
> >
> > Paul Vincent
> > Oracle DBA
> > University of Central England
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> > Author: Paul Vincent
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