Re: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-21 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal
Hello all, I think problem solving is an art. No one can know every solutions for every problems. If we don't use a methodical way, in other words if we use TEST-AND-SEE way, we waste our time. We should not jump into problem immediately. For your case: A- Problem: session/db hangs We don't kno

RE: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-21 Thread Sutton, Reed
Oracle supports response to my answers was to increase SHMMAX from 128M to 4G and SEMMNS to 2000. Upping the semaphores seems like a good idea, but when I questioned why we should increase SHMMAX to more than 2x the real memory on the machine, the answer was "I had my Unix Guru look at these and

RE: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-21 Thread Sutton, Reed
Well, unfortunately we haven't solved the problem yet, so I don't have any solutions to share with everyone. We are using Sun hardware, and we have not run diagnostics on the memory. I don't want to dismiss that idea out of hand, but I don't understand how bad memory could be affecting only one

Re: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-21 Thread Xiaohong Yang (Sharon)
I am sure that you don't have any invalid objects after the patch application. I had a lot of problem with that after a patch application two years ago. Sharon -- Xiaohong Yang (Sharon) certified Oracle DBA Center for Bioinfomatics, CB#7100 S

Re: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-20 Thread Mohammed Shakir
Please let us know how you fixed the problem. Are you using Sun Hardware? can you run diagnostics for the memory? Are you connecting using IPC(meaning direct) or through TCP(network)? Is it the network that is causing problem? --- "Grabowy, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a partic

RE: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-19 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
There are many things you can do to diagnose a system that is totally unresponsive. You should spool output from v$session_wait joined to v$session every minute so that you have a record of what people started getting hung up on leading up to the hang. This might allow you to trigger a systemsta

RE: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-19 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Here is the latest on the Oracle hangs issue from the DBA working it... -- In 8.1.7.2 we had frequent crashes, and Oracle told us to upgrade to 8.1.7.3 to solve that. The crashes then turned into these hangs. The problem is our hangs ar

RE: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-18 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Chris, Just do a ORADEBUG HANGANALYZE and upload the trace file to http://www.unal-bilisim.com 's Hanganalyzer. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA -Original Message- Chris Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We have a particul