Re: ARCH Process hangs & won't restart

Hi,

Yes this has been sighted as a Issue.

Pls See ...

http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showFrameDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=158852.1

Regards,
Ganesh R

rspeaker_at_yahoo.com (Roy) wrote in message news:<498db9a0.0112221040.3d25bc23_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> we are running 8.1.7.2 64-bit on AIX 4.3.3. We had a situation where
> the archive log directory hit 100% full at 17:30. We freed up space
> by 18:15. Since we have 24 x 240 MB redo logs, we didn't even wrap
> back around and try to overwrite the unarchived logs until 21:00.
> Even though we freed enough disk space long before then, ARCH appears
> to never have resumed copying the online logs to the arch destination,
> so of course, the database hung. We tried to issue an alter system
> switch logfile, hoping it would "jump start" the ARCH process but it
> hung too. We had to bounce the database to get it to start working
> again. We were able to duplicate the error at will on an NT4 system
> running 8.1.7.0. I can't find any mention of this a as a "bug" on
> Metalink. Anyone have any similar experiences or run across any tech
> notes on Metalink about this?
>
> Thanks.
Received on Sun Dec 23 2001 - 04:04:54 CST