Re: 8.1.7 Linux: strange Harddisk activity

Refer to
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~jmsalvo/linux/oracle8i-faq.html#Load Indicator not Supported by OS!

Found by searching the newsgroup archives at www.deja.com

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Hermi" <hs_at_technologist.com> wrote in message news:90bsea$a5d$01$1_at_news.t-online.com...
> hi,
> on 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition
> on Linux (SuSE 7.0) I found a strange behaviour:
>
> after the change from _nomount_ to _mount_
> (the same as to _open_)
> there is a rhytmic harddisk-activity every second.
> rdrdrd .....1 second silence ..... rdrdrd .....
>
> - with and without a Listener running
> - 256 MB RAM, unused Swapfile
> - no network active.
> - alert log shows no errors, except this:
> Load Indicator not supported by OS !
> - all background processes show zero-activity
> soon after startup, so I cannot identify
> one of them.
>
> This is specific to the Linux-Installation.
> I played around with 8.1.5 and 8.1.6 Enterprise on
> Windows NT 4 and NT 5 and found nothing
> of that kind.
>
> I thought of SMON rearranging blocks in the
> datafiles. But this behaviour lastet for
> hours on an idle database with almost nothing
> but system tablespace.
>
> any ideas ?
>
> --= Hermi =--
>
Received on Sun Dec 03 2000 - 01:05:52 CST