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RE: Re[2]: Sun Boxes Crashing

From: Glenn Travis <Glenn.Travis_at_wcom.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:54:28 -0400
Message-Id: <10613.116512@fatcity.com>


Please explain how to get the temp. prtdiad -v does not do it for me. Could you ost your output?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Molina,
> Gerardo
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:11 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Sun Boxes Crashing
>
>
> You mean low 30's degrees Celsius right?
>
> One of my CPU boards on an E4500 shows a max temp of 39 degrees C.
>
> Has Sun recommended an acceptable max temp to avoid this problem?
>
> TIA,
> Gerardo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:56 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> We had the parameters set since day one. It didn't correct the problem.
> One
> thing that has helped/kept our system (E6500) up and running by
> cooling down
> our
> computer room. Prtdiag -v shows the memory/cpu boards are in
> the low 30's
> F.
> We still don't an answer from Sun yet.
>
> TP
> Sr. Apps DBA / Solaris Systems Admin.
>
>
>
>
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> Author: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> Date: 9/6/00 10:20 PM
>
>
>
> Sounds exactly like the type of problem we experienced recently (same
> environment)...here is a response direct from Sun techo's:
>
> I've had a look at the crash dump and the problem appears to be
> that a kernel thread's stack overflowed.
>
> This, unfortunately, happens occasionally if you run with too many levels
> of different filesystems/device layers. (In your case vxfs/vxio/sd)
>
> The only real way to fix/workaround the problem is to increase the size of
> the
> kernel stacks.
>
> i'd suggest you add
>
> set rpcmod:svc_run_stksize=0x4000
> set lwp_default_stksize=0x4000
>
> to /etc/system then reboot the domain to take effect.
>
> the only reason it happened is because the kernel thread was
> interrupted to
> service a disk request. This pushed the stack over the normal
> 0x2000 limit.
>
> The crash was sufficient to corrupt one of our largest datafiles and
> appeared to
> occur after running a large insert batch job in parallel.
>
> We only made these changes yesterday afternoon so obviously it's too early
> to
> qualify!
>
> Regards
> Grant
>
>
>
>
>
> "Rama Malladi" <rmalladi_at_inteliant.com> on 07/09/2000 08:40:38
>
> Please respond to ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>
>
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> cc: (bcc: GRANT G HOLYOAKE/NSO/CSDA)
>
>
>
> We have several Sun boxes (Solaris 2.6) running Oracle 8, 8i. One of the
> boxes (description given below) Kept rebooting and this machine happens to
> run one of the most critical billing systems (Murphy's law!).
>
> Overall, this machine rebooted some 40 times, in a period of 2 months and
> some nights, it rebooted as many as 10 times! Our SysAdmin contacted Sun
> Engineers and they never told us what exactly was the problem, and kept
> replacing CPUs, Memory boards, SCSI cards etc ... This happened several
> times and last week there was an article in Computer Weekly
> magazine saying
> several customers were having this kind of problem on Sun boxes and Sun
> tried to hush up the matter ...!!
>
> Has anybody else faced this kind of situation?
>
> Just curious ...
> Rama
>
> =================================
> System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u 8-slot Sun Enterprise
> E4500/E5500
> SunOS uscaelmux06 5.6 Generic_105181-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
>
> --
> Author: Rama Malladi
> INET: rmalladi_at_inteliant.com
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