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Sun E25K problems with Oracle 9.2.0.4 - 64 Bit Solaris 8

From: Leonard, George <GLeonard_at_wesbank.co.za>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:00:42 +0200
Message-ID: <31779D7666D8D11181BC0000F6B2EF7A0B929E3C@KRKMSG01>


Hi all, sending this again since the first time the subject was wrong and probably did not get anyone's attention.

Hi all

We are having some weird and wonderfulls with our new machine, we use to be a on E10K, all nice and stable.

They moved the database onto an E25K 2 weeks ago and since then have been having very weird problems, below is the Sun configuration and also the Oracle init file.

We have been having CPU spiking if that is what you can call it, load up to 80 on a couple of occasions.

This sometimes happen when the backup/RMAN process starts, sometimes when Netbackup does a totally independent file system backup.

Any ideas?

Thinking is that some patch is required or something that was just missed?

All help appreciated.

db_name = "pspif1"
instance_name = pspif1
service_names = pspif1
compatible=9.2.0

background_dump_dest = /u02/admin/pspif1/bdump control_files = ("/u03/oradata/pspif1/controlfile01.pspif1", "/u04/oradata/pspif1/controlfile02.pspif1", "/u05/oradata/pspif1/ controlfile03.pspif1")
core_dump_dest = /u02/admin/pspif1/cdump

db_block_buffers = 140000
db_block_size = 8192
db_file_multiblock_read_count = 8
hash_area_size = 12000000

java_pool_size = 20000K
job_queue_processes = 10
#job_queue_interval = 30

large_pool_size = 39321600

log_archive_dest_1 = "location=/u02/archive/pspif1"
log_archive_start = true
log_archive_format = pspif1_%t_%s_.arc

#changed by Colin

log_buffer = 2097152
log_checkpoint_interval = 9999999
log_checkpoint_timeout = 1800
max_enabled_roles = 80

# mts_dispatchers = "(PROTOCOL=TCPS)(PRE=oracle.aurora.server.SGiopServer)"

open_cursors = 2000

optimizer_index_caching = 80
optimizer_index_cost_adj = 80
optimizer_mode = choose

#changed by Colin

session_cached_cursors = 150

os_authent_prefix = ""
processes = 2000
remote_login_passwordfile = exclusive

sga_max_size=3000M
shared_pool_size=838860800
sga_max_size=3000M
shared_pool_size=838860800
shared_pool_reserved_size = 60M
pre_page_sga = true
sort_area_retained_size = 2000000
sort_area_size = 2000000

timed_statistics = FALSE

user_dump_dest = /u02/admin/pspif1/udump

AQ_TM_PROCESSES = 1 utl_file_dir = '*'

undo_management=AUTO
undo_retention=2500
undo_tablespace=UNDOTBS1

#db_writer_processes=2

query_rewrite_enabled=true
query_rewrite_integrity=trusted
event="10932 trace name context level 32768"

Oracle version 9.2.0.4.0

Sun Solaris 8 patch level 117350-02

 /etc/system settings:

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=8589934592
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=1775
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=1675
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=1775
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=1750
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=65735
set semsys:seminfo_semopm=1475
set semsys:seminfo_semvmx=32767
set semsys:seminfo_semmap=1675
set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=1775
set semsys:seminfo_semume=1005

Other:

72 CPU's
144 Gb Memory

George



George Leonard
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New Dawn Technologies @ Wesbank
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Gorbatchev [mailto:agorbatchev_at_amadeus.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:08 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time.

Just found DBMS_REPAIR.REBUILD_FREELISTS - seems that it could fill new freelists with free blocks.
You are right about updates - I didn't make distinctions between update and insert. In addition there is BLOBs that can be extended, but it's rare and we have hardly any migrated/chained rows.

Regards,
Alex

From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf_at_rsiz.com>@freelists.org on 27-07-2004 08:07 AST
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To:
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cc:

Subject:
RE: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time.

Please explain what you believe happens when you change the freelists for an
existing table.

I do not believe information regarding freelists is stored in individual blocks, but rather freelists are lists of blocks queued up for new inserts.

Are you thinking of initial transactions and maximum transactions?

Further, I'm a bit confused that you're having freelist troubles due to heavy update (unless you include insert in the generic "update" as opposed to making a distinction between insert, update, and delete.) I suppose that
if the updates are something like a huge expansion of a row by putting a giant lob into a column, then freelists might be called for in updates by row migration and/or row chaining. If you routinely expand rows greatly, you
like have a different design consideration to consider re-tooling before you
spend a lot of time reorganizing.

good luck!

mwf

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Alexandre Gorbatchev Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:09 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time.

Tanel,
Yes, PCTUSED and PCTFREE needs to be corrected as well.

Yes, sure, we do have RAC. But even without RAC we experienced some problems with low FREELISTS on heavily updated tables/indexes. Changing it without reorg. would affect only new blocks. We need to change FREELIST GROUPS and I was planning to set it higher than number of nodes we have now in anticipation of additional nodes. Thanks for warning of the "side effect" for setting several freelist groups - we have to research on it. We can't easily partition some of the tables. I wonder what other options are besides ASSM.

You've correctly pointed out the problem with IO distribution. That's another reason for reorganization.

Thanks for your points,
Alex

From: Tanel Põder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>@freelists.org on 27-07-2004 12:44 ZE3
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cc:

Subject:
Re: Move table online and update the indexes at the same time.

> By the way, when is the lock required - in the beginning or in the end?

I've not tested it, but probably in the end, when you switch your newly created table instead of the old one.

> I move the table for several reasons:
> 1.) CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT produces the table which is much smaller
> (sometimes 2-3 times). We are trying to reduce the space usage with it.
So
> it seems the tables are space.

This seems to be an issue of incorrectly configured PCTFREE and PCTUSED. If
you analyzed the table over time and checked the average free space in blocks (and rowcounts+rowlens) you might get closer whats the real issue here. In default configuration the tables PCTUSED is 40 for example, meaning
that up to 60% of the block contents may remain empty and completely unused
if the space usage doesn't fall below PCTUSED...

> 2.) Change storage clause - FREELIST, FREELIST GROUP or move to ASSM (not
> sure, because it seems there are several bugs that we might hit in our > environment)

You can change FREELISTS online without reorg. You shouldn't normally use FREELIST GROUPS if you're not in OPS or RAC evnironment. Freelist groups have the problem, that the processes which PID's map to another freelist group, don't see free blocks in other freelist groups, thus potentially wasting space in DML intensive environment. So if you're not seeing heavy segment header block contention due freelist updates in your database, you shouldn't consider freelist groups (and even if you see, then there are other alternatives to consider, like partitioning, etc.)

ASSM - again don't move to it if you don't have a RAC environment (with continuously changing number of nodes) or you don't have special conditions
like having rows with extremely varying sizes inserted to your table etc..

> 3.) Physical layout reorganization. Some tables are in wrong tablespaces.

This doesn't seem like a serious problem, given that your databases availability is more important (unless you don't have serious bottlenecks due improperly balanced IO)

Tanel.



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