Sorry for my late entry in this conversation, meant to reply sooner. Jim you are correct it probably is load. In the messages file that Laszlo attached we have the load averages: > number of cpu: 2 > number of processes: 192 > load average in 1 min: 1.86 > load average in 5 min: 0.66 > load average in 15 min: 0.30 So assuming that the previous 5/15 minutes prior to the problem where "normal" (15/30% load) then previous minute certainly wasn't (93%+ load). Laszlo what you need to do now is find out what is causing the load.
If you are on a production machine. Stop and back out any changes that have been made. Then apply those changes to a development box, if you have one, and test. If you are on a non-production cluster then run the utility "top", if it is not installed I believe it is on the Solaris 9 Companion CD/DVD, or any other utility that will show you the load in near real time. Then try what ever VCS task you are trying to do, top should show you the process that is causing the load. For example: Is it a single process that is causing the load, or hundreds of small processes. Then you have just got to work out why it is causing the load, does it do the same if you run the start/stop script from the command line etc. Sorry not an Oracle person any more so I won't be able to help you there, but hopefully this helps you track down what is going wrong. Stuart ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail (and any attachments) are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient do not copy, use, or rely on it and please delete all copies. Please notify me ASAP if this message has been misdirected. This e-mail is from: Biffa Waste Services Limited. Registered in England and Wales No. 946107. Registered Office: Accuray House Coronation Road, Cressex, High Wycombe, Bucks,HP12 3TZ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Biffa MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
