RE: Rapid Log Switching

archive_lag_target is 0.

Nothing else is strange or has changed for months....I've been trying to make changes and can't get approval!  

From: Roman Podshivalov [mailto:roman.podshivalov_at_gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:01 PM To: Weatherman, John
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Rapid Log Switching  

Hi,  

Granted that you aren't archiving full logs i.e. 2-6M instead of full 20M I would assume there is something in log handling configuration triggering logfile switch, because if it would have been because of the load on the database archived files would be close to logfile in size. It might help to analyze this if you post you database configuration related to log handling like all log* parameter and archive_lag_target.  

--romas
 

On 2/20/08, Weatherman, John <John.Weatherman_at_asurion.com> wrote:

This has been going on for about 19 hours now, and the system isn't being hammered. If it was, I could understand the log switches. But I have 20M logs that are switching when 2-6M in size. I did have problems with AWR before, but that is now under control....and then this starts.....

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lewis Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:52 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Rapid Log Switching

What time did it start ?

Are you aware of the automatic stats collection that takes place in 10g ? This runs to collects stats on objects with stale statistics every night with a window that is something like midnight to 6 am.

Your system might run for weeks doing a couple of minutes of stats collection every (weekday) night, and then decide one night that most of the tables in the system have gone stale and hammers the system for hours on end.

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• Original Message ----- From: "Weatherman, John" <John.Weatherman_at_asurion.com> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Cc: "Terrell, Paul" <Paul.Terrell_at_asurion.com>; "Shamim, Aziz" <Aziz.Shamim_at_asurion.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:58 PM Subject: Rapid Log Switching

All,

I'm on RH 2.6.9-42.ELsmp x86_64 Linux, running 10.2.0.3. I've been having a lot of log issues for the last week. Thanks to some help here, I seem to have the worst of it under control now.

However, last night I began seeing log switches every 6 minutes. The logs are 20M in size, but are switching between 2-6M. We do have log_checkpoint_timeout set, but it is 1800 seconds (30 minutes), not 6 minutes.

Does anyone have any ideas what other than the timeout or the log filling up would cause a log switch? It's not manual and it's not backups, it's been too consistent and too long for either of those to make any sense. I'm not aware of anything else that should be triggering log switches and haven't been able to find anything suspicious with Google or Metalink.

TIA, John

John P Weatherman john.weatherman_at_asurion.com

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