RE: Oracle process is RWAST'd on VMS

From: Bill Wine <biwine_at_vassar.edu>
Date: 1998/11/06
Message-ID: <71ut5g$71j$1@sun5.vassar.edu>#1/1

After making a minor change to the way we set up reserved memory, the problem has not re-occurred. It's only been a week, and if the problem returns, I will repost.

The Oracle installation guide (page 1-25) suggests the following command to set up reserved memory:

$ mcr sysman
sysman> reserve add ora_xxx_sga/size=nnn/allocate/zero/page

We changed '/page' to '/nopage'.

Thanks to Geoff Bryant at Process Software for the tip.

This is a known problem at sites running Multinet.

Bill

> We run Oracle 7.3.3.4 on VMS 7.1 on an Alpha 4100.
>
> We shutdown the database (shutdown immediate), do a cold
> backup, and restart every night. About once a week, we
> find that the database shuts down, but does not release it's
> reserved memory. When this happens, I have noticed an RWAST'd
> Oracle shadow process on the system. We have to reboot to
> remove that process and restart Oracle.
Received on Fri Nov 06 1998 - 00:00:00 CST