The problem is probably in the "RESETLOGS" part. Do you have many large log files?
If you do, your instance is trying to initialize them all. Take a look at the system
monitor and observe the CPU consumption. If it is large, you have a problem. If it 
isn't,
use sar -b 5 50 or something alike and see how many preads/pwrites are you getting.
Many preads/pwrites means that your database software is doing IO. for 8 redo groups,
consisting of two members each, 512M per member. it used to take almost 40 minutes to 
do "open 
resetlogs", after a successful recovery. Solution was a cheap one, FC/AL based EMC 
Symmetrix
1+0 RAID with 32 GB cache. That has helped. Such solution costs $.25 per MB of the 
effective 
storage, which means that 1TB costs $250,000.

On 2002.08.14 16:28 DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> I am trying to perform an RMAN disaster recovery task. While I use an RMAN
> catalog to make backups, I am trying to recover using just the control file
> information.
> Oracle 8.1.6, Compaq/HP Tru64
> 
> I start RMAN with 
>      rman target sys/password nocatalog
> then,
>      startup mount
> 
> run {
> set until time "to_date('08/11/2002 01:00:00','MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')";
> allocate channel d1 type disk;
> restore database;
> recover database;
> alter database open resetlogs;
> }
> 
> Everything appears normal for awhile. In the alert log RMAN tries to find
> each file, doesn't find them. Then it successfully recovers 5 data files
> (including system and rollback) and reports success in the alert log. Then .
> . . nothing for hours. RMAN doesn't return an error. The RMAN shadow
> processes are still present but with no CPU consumption. Nothing is written
> to the alert log. 
>      I check V$SESSION_WAIT, and the only entry for the RMAN shadow
> processes is one is SQL*Net message to client with seconds_in_wait = 0,
> state = waited unknown time. 
>      In V$SYSTEM_EVENT, time_waited and average_wait are zero for all
> events. The following events have values of total_waits that are increasing:
>                                    Increase in total_waits in 10-minutes
>    rdbms ipc message               401
>    pmon timer                       57
>    control file parallel write      56
>    SQL*Net message to client        24
>    SQL*Net message from client      24
>    virtual circuit status            5
>    dispatch timer                    3
>    smon timer                        1
> 
> Archiving is turned off.
> 
> I have attempted this recovery many times using different RMAN backup sets,
> but the system always hangs at this point.
> Any ideas would be appreciated. 
> 
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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