Re: Oracle Problem on AIX

DBA wrote:

> Last weekend I faced the problem of paging space filing up, wich
> caused the oracle database to be inaccessible, not only the database
> wasn't running my telnet service was down too. After rebooting the
> server everything went back to normal.
> I have about 10 instances running and those are most of all
> development instances so there is not much havy load goign on.
> The server has 8Gigs of Phisical RAM and 4Gigs of Swap space. I've
> been monitoring the server using VMSTS since but I don't see any major
> activity going on. Paging-In is at zero and the CPU is at 98% Unused
> on average.
> So what could cause the server to start paging and halt all the
> services? And how to prevent it from happenig again?
>
> Thank You

And you AIX has a version number? How about your Oracle?

Based on what you posted the only advice I can give is: Pay closer attention in the future.

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