Re: Upgrading Grid Infra for Standalone ASM from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:28:22 +0100
Message-ID: <BANLkTinOmXahix5Z4bHYnkQLN1XpEH7CMA_at_mail.gmail.com>
Not that I'm bored waiting for long running processes to do their stuff or anything...
Anyway I've done a wee bit of research for you and determined the following.
- You are not alone - there's at least one thread on forums.oracle.com with the same issue.
- Diskmon is an exadata feature! that on most platforms is disabled in the absence of exadata at least in 11.1
- in 11.1 you could make a change to init.cssd to stop the diskmon process starting, you can't on 11.2.
- some patches for GI were delivered with a missing diskmon.bin though that seems to be an 11.1 problem.
It's likely therefore that you may be able to disable the diskmon process within CRS. Clearly this is not something I would do without
- talking to support given the almost complete lack of documentation for the diskmon background process (3 mentions in 11.2 doc set, none in 11.1 :) )
- experimenting carefully on a test system.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Don Seiler <don_at_seiler.us> wrote:
> Wondering if anyone else out there has done upgrades of Grid Infrastructure
> for standalone ASM from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2. I seem to be encountering a
> new bug every time I do it.
>
> The latest one results in core dump files being created every 10 minutes
> for no reason. This is bug 10283819, although it's been closed as "not a
> bug". The original poster said that the only workaround he found was to
> remove the old 11.2.0.1 grid home directory (which I'd rather not do until
> I'm well into running on 11.2.0.2) and restart all services. So far in just
> over 5.5 days, I have over 6.5GB of these core dump files in the
> $GRID_HOME/log/<hostname>/diskmon/ directory.
>
> If anyone else has done such an upgrade, I'd like to know if you see this
> as well. Definitely seems like it's not "not a bug" to me.
>
> --
> Don Seiler
> http://www.seiler.us
>
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