Re: Corrupted Datablocks with Oracle under Linux

[Quoted] >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Winterschlade <thomas_at_imagedev.com> writes:

    Thomas> Hi ! We have serious troubles using Oracle 8.0.5.0 /     Thomas> 8.0.5.1 under Linux (Kernel 2.2.9, SuSE distribution 6.2).

    Thomas> From time to time the database crashes with the Messages
    Thomas> "ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # x, block #
    Thomas> y)".

We have similar problems with Oracle 8.0.5.0 on Linux kernel 2.0.36 (I can't check right now, it's the standard kernel that comes with RedHat 5.2). It happens about once a week on two development machines, especially under heavy load. The machines have 128MB RAM each and 2 swap partitions of 128MB. I've added a 128MB swapfile to each machine because I've read somewhere 3 times physical mem was recommended, but it didn't help.

In the same document that talked about the swapsize there was also a comment to increase the maximum amount of shared memory. I haven't done that yet. We've talked to Oracle support here in the Netherlands and they're thinking of a Linux bug, which I now tend to agree with because we haven't got any problems with a similar machine running NT (although it has Oracle 8.0.5.1 instead of 8.0.5.0). Oracle support is trying to test it on their own Linux system but are having problems installing it.

Theo. Received on Wed Oct 20 1999 - 18:18:27 CEST