Re: Dr Watson during heavy database use

FYI: I re-install Oracle and now everything works perfectly ...

Konstantin Kudin wrote:

> Kalle <kminerva_at_jippii.fi> wrote in message news:<3E410200.E8039CF3_at_jippii.fi>...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > what might be the reason for that we receive quite often dr watson
> > errors during heavy db use and finally db's will shut down...
> >
> > how to locate or approach this problem.
> >
> > I am using 8.1.6. on NT4 SP6
> >
> > Any ideas will be highly appreciated...
> >
> > rgds,
> > kalle
>
> Hi there
>
> It seems like it would be helpful to know which particular process
> crashes.
> If it is oracle.exe, then IMO you're just pretty much out of luck. If
> this is not a common problem with a known solution (do an extensive
> search on Metalink), then a fresh reinstall of everything will be the
> most cost effective option since troubleshooting in the absence of any
> pointers is very difficult and time consuming. You may have faulty
> hardware and then even a reinstall won't help. There might be some
> programs out there that could stress load your hardware and see if it
> stable under heavy memory/IO loads.
>
> Once I've seen a support guy replacing pretty much all hardware
> components until the problem was found in the CPU board.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Konstantin
Received on Thu Feb 06 2003 - 00:25:16 CST