Bug 209235
| Summary: | RMAN backups cause out of memory errors | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Stephen Carville <stephen> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Larry Woodman <lwoodman> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 4.4 | CC: | jbaron, steved | ||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-06-20 13:29:15 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 137711 [details]
logfile extract, processor, and memory information
This may be an NFS problem. I'll post more as I find it. Switching NFS mounts from UDP to TCP seem to have cured it. Stephen, can you also try increasing /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes by 4 times its default and see if that fixes the problem when NFS is using UDP ? Thanks, Larry Woodman Doned (2003 -> 8012) but I cannot test until this weekend. I'll let you know what happens Stephen, did you get a chance to test that tuning suggestion in comment #4 yet? Larry Woodman Sorry to have taken so long. I made the suggested change and got the out of memory errors during that evening's backup which was still using TCP. I didn't try it with UDP then but rather just set the free_kbytes back to 2003. In the next week or so I shuold be able to bukd a replacetn Oracle server I'll have mor opportunit to experiment with. Stephen, what is the state of this bug? There has been no update since 12/8/06. Larry Woodman Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue. |
Description of problem: When running RMAN backups for Oracle 10g the kernel reports out of memory errors and starts killng processes. I usually lose 4 or 5 of my backup channels. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Oracle 10.2.0.2.0 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: Run a backup using the following script: run { allocate channel d1 type disk; set limit channel d1 kbytes 2000000; allocate channel d2 type disk; set limit channel d2 kbytes 2000000; allocate channel d3 type disk; set limit channel d3 kbytes 2000000; allocate channel d4 type disk; set limit channel d4 kbytes 2000000; allocate channel d5 type disk; set limit channel d5 kbytes 2000000; allocate channel d6 type disk; set limit channel d6 kbytes 2000000; sql 'alter system archive log current'; backup full tag <backup tag> format 'filename format string' database; sql 'alter system archive log current'; release channel d1; release channel d2; release channel d3; release channel d4; release channel d5; release channel d6; } Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Running 32 bit Linux on EMT64