Re: RMAN 'delete obsolete' command takes ages

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:23:04 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <gk886o$p3v$1_at_ss408.t-com.hr>



On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:25:35 +0000, Ian Chard wrote:

> strace tells me that the rman process is blocked reading from an oracle
> process, which seems to be doing nothing much. What can I do to find
> out why this takes so long?

V$SESSION_WAIT and V$SESSION_EVENT can both provide useful clues.

>
> Many thanks for any advice
> - Ian (not a DBA, and please don't tell me to hire one!)

Get OEM with the diagnostic and tuning packages. That will make you a DBA 2.0.

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