From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; Q312461) Description of problem: When I add a large datafile to an oracle tablespace the system stop doing anything else until the process is complete. Being a multi-taskingoperating system I would not expect this to happen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.in sqlplus, alter tablespace name add datafile 'name' size 100M; 2.system stops until process completes, then continues normally 3. Actual Results: system hangs - occasional commands (such as sar -d) work after a while Expected Results: System may slow a bit but not stop like this. Additional info:
since you filed this against the kernel: what kernel version are you using?
Sorry, I should have said. 2.4.9
Should be fixed in 2.4.20-20 errata kernels.