Re: dbwr and lgwr don't shutdown

the binaries live on the disk array together with the data the disk array is a5200.

apologies for not making it clear

I tried trussing either processes, they just didn't seem to be doing anything (perhaps I didn't wait long enough though..)

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:45:51 GMT, HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:10:22 +0000, NetComrade wrote:
>
>>
>> This is a weird issue.
>>
>> We have a machine (v880/solaris8/latest recommended patch cluster),
>> where a particular Standard Edition 9.2.0.5 database shuts down
>> 'cleanly' yet leaves two processes behind, which we cannot kill unless
>> reboot. The same database (storage attached to multiple machines) on a
>> solaris7/e4500 machine comes up/shuts down fine. (i tiried to shutdown
>> the rest with aborts, as you can see from the logs, didn't help)
>
>Let me verify by paraphrasing:
>
>a) Two machines, V880 & E4500, set up to talk to same 9.2.0.5SE DB
>instance (controlled so it's not concurrent), with NAS or SAN (not sure
>which).
>
>Database is started on one machine, then shutdown.
>
>b) When E4500 (Solaris 7) is used, shutdown instance goes down properly;
>
>c) When V880 (Solaris 8) is used, all shuts down except the two processes
>that are supposed to write (and wait for write verification) to the shared
>disk.
>
>If this is true, perhaps you could indicate a bit more on the disk
>subsystem.
>
>/Hans

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