Re: dbca hangs - Oracle 10gR2 RAC, Solaris 10, NetApp NFS

Yonah Russ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have RAC installed on 2 T2000 machines.
> Solaris 10, patched
> IPMP for failover on all interfaces
> NetApp NFS for datafile,voting disk, etc.
> Oracle installation, binaries, etc. are on local disks.
> All configurations were according to Oracle/NetApp docs.
> There were no issues during installation.
>
> When we try to create the db using dbca, the process hangs during data
> dictionary creation.
> There is only one error message "Warning: aiowait timed out x times"
> All the NFS partitions are mounted forcedirectio, and we have tried
> with aio disabled in oracle.
> We have also tried without forcedirectio, with nointr instead of intr.
> If we create a db on the local disks there is no issue.
> There are no problems using the NFS shares in general.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Yonah

If your fstab looks substantively different from this ... change it. ntap270a:/vol/alpha /u01 nfs
rw,bg,intr,hard,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,noac,nolock,tcp,vers=3 0 0

in this case ntap270a is the volume being mounted as /u01.

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