Re: Oracle/Solaris
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:03:02 -0700 (PDT)
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Thanks Tanel. I was out and so will now check and update
From: Tanel Poder <tanel_at_tanelpoder.com> To: smishra_97_at_yahoo.com
Cc: "rodd.holman_at_gmail.com" <rodd.holman_at_gmail.com>; "oracle-l_at_freelists.org" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Oracle/Solaris
And don't forget to run iostat -xn to make sure that it's just not some
storage/IO hang (even tools like top might read/load stuff from disk if they
haven't been used for a while)
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Tanel Poder <tanel_at_tanelpoder.com> wrote:
> Try to truss your ls -ltr or other commands which get stuck - if you get
> stuck in a system call, this should show it (of course the truss itself may
> take a while to get started).
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> Top would open up lots of /proc filesystem files, so you may have a file
> descriptor allocation issue ... or some bug related to OS spinlock
> contention (mpstat would show increase in smtx column)
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