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We run into this problem quite a lot.
The issue seems to be that during a RMAN backup it takes an enqueue lock =
(seems to be of type CHPT) against the RMAN catalogue.
This is held whilst it searches for obsolete/redundant rows to delete.
As you will be aware there is quite a lot of referential integrity =
within the catalogue and some of the full table scans can be quite =
intensive on a very large catalogue.
The process then exaggerates as another backup is kicked off from a =
different target database.
The end result is the need to kill of the locked processes and restart. Solutions can be to reduce the number of concurrent rman backups from = seperate servers and to increase the number of catalogues in use. We have a RMAN recovery database with a number of schemas which we back = various versions of Oracle software into and we can also split into = schemas for application types (i.e. rman8i, rmman9i, rmancust etc)
HTH
John
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Spears, Brian
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:35 PM
To: Oracle-L (E-mail)
Subject: Rman Locking
Anybody ever run into a resync catalog while backing up archive logs =
causing
problems. It is happening once a week randomly. What happens is =
deadlock
on chp table and of course all other Rman stuff is held up. It seems to =
be
this one small rarely used database. The way we solve it is to go out =
and
kill the process on unix and everything is freed up.
I would like to say that the network is burping or something and
disconnecting the process ..but its on the same database all the time.
Brian
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