Re: racgimon.exe CPU usage question

On Apr 17, 5:52 pm, GuangMei <z..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have 2-node oracle rac db on window platform.
>
> Oracle Clusterware was upgraded to 10.2.0.3 with "10g Release 2
> (10.2.0.3) Patch Set 2 for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)"
>
> The problem is that while the rac db is up and running (but with no db
> activities from any applications), we found racgimon.exe is taking
> about
> 15% cpu usage, followed by ons.exe of about 10% cpu usage.
>
> Using a tool called "Filemon", we found racgimon.exe is trying to
> write to a file called F:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\opmn\conf
> \.formfactor.
>
> The file isn't there and the exe just keeps trying to open it...
> over..
> and over..
>
> I worked on this issue a bit more, found a workaround, but still hope
> that I could resolve this issue completely.
>
> In SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OraCr10g_home,
> ORACLE_CRS_HOME C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\crs
> ORACLE_HOME C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\crs
>
> In SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OraDb10g_home,
> ORACLE_HOME f:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db1
>
> F drive is the drive that gets shared by two nodes.
>
> To workaround the above issue, I need to do
>
> copy each node's file C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\crs\opmn\conf
> \.formfactor to F:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\opmn\conf\.formfactor on
> the shared F dirve,
> and then I can see racgimon's CPU usuage drop to close to zero on each
> node.
>
> My guess is racgimon daemon is not taking $oracle_home as C:\oracle
> \product\10.2.0\crs (which it should), but it takes F:\oracle\product
> \10.2.0\db_1 as $oracle_home. I tried to change $ORACLE_HOME for css
> by running
>
> cd C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\crs
>
> localconfigure reset "C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\crs" on devwin16, but
> never succeeded.
>
> Below is what I got:
>
> C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\crs\BIN>
> C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\crs\BIN>localconfig.bat reset "C:\oracle
> \product\10.2.
> 0\crs"
> Step 1: stopping local CSS stack
> failed to stop CSS service, err(1051)
> failed to delete CSS service, err(1072)
> failed to delete the local CSS stack
> Step 2: deleting OCR repository
> Step 3: creating new OCR repository
> Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
> Creating OCR keys for user 'crdhome\gmei', privgrp ''..
> Operation successful.
> Step 4: creating new CSS service
> Failed to create the new CSS service, err(1072)
> failed to create new CSS services
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks.
>
> Guang

I guess it shouldn't surprise me anymore how many people run rac on windows.

My suggestion is to work this with oracle via a service request and please keep us updated on what support support provides. Received on Tue Apr 17 2007 - 19:11:20 CDT