RE: How to track logfile switch

According to Oracle Metalink note 372557.1 <https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=372557.1> this can be ignored, this is expected behavior of 10g.    

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Yavor Ivanov Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:59 AM
To: oracle-l
Subject: FW: How to track logfile switch  

                Forgot to say the version. It is 10.2.0.4

 

Regards,

Yavor Ivanov

Oracle Certified Master  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Yavor Ivanov Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 4:50 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: How to track logfile switch  

                Hello, gurus

 

                I have a strange problem. I am auditing a  system with 2 node Oracle RAC on Solaris. I found in the alert log the following ugly message:

Thread è cannot allocate new log, sequence èèèè

                It happens may times. I started to dig inside the problem. I found that the system is setup with 2 redo logs per thread, each of them is 512 MB. I do not think this is wise, but this is not the problem. I noticed in v$archived_log that the size of archived logs (BLOCKS * BLOCK_SIZE) is somewhere between 1 and 3 MB (!), far less than 512 MB. Log switch is happening every 1-5 minutes.

                Am I missing something? It is Friday afternoon here, and everything seems to me so strange that I started to think I am missing something very major. I am using the following query to get the size of the files generated for some period:

select l.THREAD#, l.SEQUENCE#, l.FIRST_TIME, l.NEXT_TIME, l.BLOCKS * l.BLOCK_SIZE / 1024 / 1024

  from v$archived_log l

 where round(next_time, 'HH24') = to_date('03.10.2008 10:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI')  

                Also I was hoping to catch who is making all this log switches using AFTER DDL ON DATABASE trigger, but the trigger does not fire for alter system switch logfile. Maybe this statement is not DDL. Can somebody see what am I missing?

 

Regards,

Yavor Ivanov  

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