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RE: RAC system Calls

From: Ravi Kulkarni <nandagokul_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:04:30 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005C45F2.20030711080430@fatcity.com>


Mladen, As mentioned earlier, I have lots of "times" funtion calls, which (my guess) relate to (60-70%)"IPC send completion sync" waits I got in statspack. Dont mean to fill your inboxes, but, pasting few truss lines:
26949: read(14, "01 O\0\006\0\0\0\0\011 i".., 2064)

Thanks,
Ravi.
--- "Gogala, Mladen" <MGogala_at_oxhp.com> wrote:
> Just for fun, have you tried using truss to find out
> which calls
> are being used? That might help you.
>
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
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> Email:mgogala_at_oxhp.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:14 PM
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>
> Raj,
> Yes. Timed_statistics=true. But I see the 'times'
> even
> in single instance(non-rac)database but relatively
> called negligible number of times.
> -Ravi.
> --- "Jamadagni, Rajendra"
> <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com> wrote:
> > You seem to have timed_statistics=TRUE right ?? in
> > RAC you will ALWAYS see
> > GCS pings ... basically as long as
> > cluster_database=true, even if only one
> > node is running, you will still see Oracle trying
> to
> > ping other instances.
> >
> > My guess is that's what is happening ... but I
> could
> > be very well wrong, I
> > have RAC experience, but never tried to truss the
> > top processes.
> >
> > Raj
> >

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> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:30 PM
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> > Hello List,
> >
> > We are running Benchmark tests on Solaris 2-Node
> > RAC.
> > Consistently noticed the following :
> > - Very high Kernel usage (averaging 45%) on TOP
> > - Statspack has "IPC Send Completion sync" waits
> > (70%
> > Total ela time)
> > - On trussing top process, found Oracle to be
> > issuing
> > huge number of "times" system calls in addition to
> > read/writes(which I think are select/inserts).
> > Has anyone noticed this in your environment. I am
> > guessing these to be inter-instance pings, but
> could
> > not get any hits in Doc/Metalink to confirm this.
> > "times" call is clocking lot of CPU. Is this
> normal
> > ?
> > Any pointers would be helpful ? If this is out of
> > context, is there a separate list for RAC?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ravi.
> >
> >
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