RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks to all who helped me with this one, looks like we have * bug *. OWS is working on resolution and probably a patch. Once I get a clear research note from dev, I'll update the list if anyone is interested. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread David Wagoner
Check MetaLink Doc ID: Note: 176129.1 ALERT: "LATCH FREE" And "FREE_BUFFER_WAITS" Cause Performance Degradation/Hang Problem affects 9.0.1.2 and sounds like what you're experiencing. HTH, david David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide, Inc. 8000 Regency Park

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Arun Chakrapani
This query was totally customized for our production database. We run this query every 2 secs This is querying the main knowN events which causes sometimes the database to freeze especially the latch free wait you can customize it as you want. the format comes out like below SIDEVENT_WITH_

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
AIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:14 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind > > > If you are able to login and query the session_Wait > try using the below said query > > select s.IND

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Gogala, Mladen
It's a beautiful query which only misses "FROM" clause. I'll save it for later use. Much later. > -Original Message- > From: Arun Chakrapani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:14 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
And how would I interpret the output of this query? Thanks Arun Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Arun Chakrapani
If you are able to login and query the session_Wait try using the below said query select s.INDX SID,u.KSUUDNAM||','||u.KSUSEUNM||','||u.KSUSEMNM||'('||decode(KSUSSOPC,2,'LA TCH FREE',12,'ENQUEUE',94,'db file sequential read', 95,'db file scattered read',144,'LIBRARY CACHE PIN',75,'buffer busy wa

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks john, The dbms_job has problems on 9012, so I am switching to good old cron ... basically I don't have the statpack info at all ... but I am starting it at 10am today. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Ja

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks Stephan, No it is not a problem with archiving at all, the filesystem assigned for archiving has may more GB of space than it needs. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Arun Chakrapani
When your database freezes can you log in as internal thro svrmgrl and see what is happening on v$session_Wait -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks john, The dbms_job has problems on 9012, so I am switching to good ol

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks Waleed, Actually this happened again last night ... it took me 2 seconds to log in, so no sqlnet problem. The system was dumping trace files like crazy, yet Spotlight didn't show any trouble spots. Let me see what Oracle has to say on this the TAR is already in progress. Raj

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks Arun Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread John Kanagaraj
Raj, > Well, I'd say about 3 log switches during 15 minute period > before and after > the freeze, nothing crazy ... that's what is confusing ... Could you post the Statspack report for the period where you experienced this 'hang' as well as one during 'normal' periods? If you don't want to, ha

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Arun Chakrapani
like put a cron job which keeps connecting to the database if there a probs by any chance a freeze see to that in the script it runs ORADEBUG COMMAND WHICH WILL TAKE A DATABASE SYSTEM DUMP I have a feeling u know the command for ora debug If not please use the following script I use the below sai

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
You have to find out: If it's only a problem for users/programs that use sqlnet+listener to connect to the server. if you can connect locally to Oracle while others can not connect remotely then could be network traffic problem. If you can connect internal locally but can not connect locally throu

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Can you please elaborate on that? Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but havin

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
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RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Arun Chakrapani
Why dont you sent an event which monitors the database and takes a system state dump during the freeze thro ORADEBUG >From that I hope u can find out where it is bombing -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks Waleed, Well

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks Waleed, Well, I'd say about 3 log switches during 15 minute period before and after the freeze, nothing crazy ... that's what is confusing ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com A

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Check the frequency of Log Switches, specially that time the db froze Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, this is something new on our 9012 db. Once in two days, the DB will freeze up for up to 2-3 minutes ...

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj - If you run STATSPACK with the statsauto script, then it runs every 15 minutes, which would be too large an interval for your purposes. However, if you execute statspack.snap; then it executes immediately. When the problem occurs, execute it. If you are concerned, keep a window open

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Dennis, the problem is, stats pack s schedules to run every 15 minutes, the problem is I want to know what happens during these 2-3 minutes why oracle is not telling me anything ... Thanks Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN I

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj - Consider running statspack. If you have it configured, you can just enter: connect perfstat executes statspack.snap; This should help you to see what is going on inside Oracle. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday,