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RE: Oracle on AIX hangs

From: Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen_at_OneNeck.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:33:18 -0700
Message-ID: <04DDF147ED3A0D42B48A48A18D574C4503D40130@NT15.oneneck.corp>


Yes, minperm and maxperm have been restricted:

/usr/sbin ->vmstat -v|grep perm

      10.0 minperm percentage
      20.0 maxperm percentage

hdisk0 contains the swap space and it appears we were paging/swapping to death:

/usr/sbin ->lsps -a

Page Space      Physical Volume   Volume Group    Size %Used Active  Auto  Type
hd6             hdisk0            rootvg       10240MB     1     yes   yes    l

/opt/oracle ->vmstat 15

System Configuration: lcpu=4 mem=15808MB kthr memory page faults cpu

-----   -----------   ------------------------  ------------    -----------
 r  b   avm      fre  re  pi   po   fr    sr cy in   sy    cs    us sy id wa
 2 7 4965756 27 0 2 2 437 514 0 1388 30629 13078 11 5 73 11  1 180 4985880 503 0 56 1278 1411 1971 0 1311 5568 2984 27 4 0 69  2 184 4998310 0 0 36 741 853 10011 0 1250 6287 1733 28 3 0 69  1 184 5015464 0 0 44 1069 1228 10090 0 1283 4044 2431 28 3 0 69  1 190 5019796 527 0 43 349 341 382 0 1216 3377 1323 27 1 0 71  1 200 5031743 277 0 41 743 819 951 0 1225 2585 1924 27 2 0 71

Now to figure out why . . .

Thanks,
Brandon

-----Original Message-----
From: parkerpg_at_gmail.com [mailto:parkerpg_at_gmail.com]On Behalf Of Paul G Parker Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:19 PM To: Allen, Brandon; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Oracle on AIX hangs

Brandon,
The default settings on AIX for Virtual Memory Management are inappropriate for a database server. Confirm the settings of minperm and maxperm (use vmstat -v) and check out Metalink note: 316533.1

Another useful site reference is www.aixtips.com

Paul

On 1/26/06, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen_at_oneneck.com> wrote: Yes, I think you might be right - see attached. Unfortunately I didn't save the output of lsps, but I did run it and I'm pretty sure it said 49% used. Now we just need to find the cause of the paging.

Thanks,
Brandon

-----Original Message-----
From: parkerpg_at_gmail.com [mailto:parkerpg_at_gmail.com]On Behalf Of Paul G Parker Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:29 PM To: Allen, Brandon
Subject: Re: Oracle on AIX hangs

Brandon,

My guess would be excessive paging. What is the output of lsps -a ? Do you have any vmstat output during this "hang"?

Paul

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