Database Preperation on RHEL5

Hi all,
Can someone give me the best practices partition layout for Oracle 10g/11g on redhat5 Ent? My server is configured as follows:
DELL 2950
1.2 TB (RAID5) comprised of 5 Drives of 300Gb SATA 6ht drive is hot spare)
PERC RAID controller
16GB RAM
What paritions should be primary? How can this space be best utilized? Database will be approx 60GB. Would EXT3 be the optimal file system format? Our main and additional mount points would be: apps, d10, d11, d12, d13. Should / boot, be on a primary partition? Any assistance would be helpful.

damorgan,
You're correct, I did leave out some further details and do appreciate your response thus far. Let me see if I can answer some of your questions. In regards to archive redo logs, yes, they will be stored on the server, as for the size, that will vary from 10mb - 200 mb and we haven't decided for how long we will keep them.
RMAN via OSB will be stored on another server, then out to tape.
Flashback will be enabled and logging for 3 - 5 hours only.
Datafile growth is minimal. Not too much data will be entered into the existing database. Really, not a complex system. We track permits and customer accounts for land management. As for RAID5, well, I have a total of 6 drives, 300GB SATA. All the other Oracle servers that were here prior to my coming on on board, are ll RAID5. I really didn't want to tamper with their standards. But open to any sugestions given what I have.
Thanks!
JK

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read:
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I'll try to answer all the questions in the Performance Questionnaire from here.
1) I'm primarily concerned with insertion performance. The best I've seen so far is about 6000 inserts/per second. This is running inside a VMWare VM with 3 GB of RAM. The VM is set up with 2 CPUs each with 2 cores. The host machine has 8GB of RAM with a dual core 2.67 GHZ i7 (2 logical cores per CPU). The best performance I've seen is by running 2 threads of execution. A single thread only gets me about 2500 inserts per/second.
This is all within a very simple, isolate program. I'm trying to determine how to re-architect a more complicated system, but if I can't hope to hit 10k inserts per second with my sample, I don't see how it's possible to expand this out to something more complicated.
2) Versions: BDBXML version 2.5.26 no special patches or config options
3) BDB version 4.8.26, no special patches
4) 2.67 dual core, hyperthreaded intel i7 (4 logical processors)
5) Host: Windows 7 64-bit, Guest: RHEL5 64-bit
6) Underlying disk is a 320GB WesternDigital barricuda (SATA). It's a laptop harddrive, I believe it's only 5400 RPM. Although the VM does not have exclusive access to the drive, it is not the same drive as the Host sytem drive. (i.e. Windows runs off of the C drive, this is the D drive). The has a 60GB slice of this drive.
7) Drive is NTFS formatted for the host. Guest, ext3
8) Host 8gb, guest 3gb (total usage when running tests low, i.e. no swapping by guest or host)
9) not currently using any replication
10) Not using remote filesystem
11) db_cv_mutex=POSIX/pthreads/library/x86_64/gcc-assembly
12) Using the C++ API for DBXML, and the C API for BDB
using gcc/g++ version 4.1.2
13) not using app server or web server
14) flags to 'DB_ENV->open()': | DB_SYSTEM_MEM
          | DB_INIT_MPOOL
          | DB_INIT_LOCK
          | DB_INIT_LOG
          | DB_INIT_TXN
          | DB_RECOVER
          | DB_THREAD
other env flags explicitly set:
DB_LOG_IN_MEMORY 1
DB_LOG_ZERO 1
set_cachesize(env, 1, 0, 1) // 1GB cache in single block
DB_TXN_NOSYNC 1
DB_TXN_WRITE_NOSYNC 1
I am not using a DB_CONFIG file at this time.
15) For the container config:
transactional true
transactionsNotDurable true
containertype wholedoc
indexNodes Off
pagesize 4096
16) In my little test program, I have a single container.
16.1) flags are the same as listed above.
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16.3) Wholedoc (tried both node & wholedoc, I believe wholedoc was slightly faster).
16.4) The best performance I've seen is with a smaller document that is about 500 bytes.
16.5) I'm not currently using any document data.
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='no'?>
<Record xmlns='http://someurl.com/test' JID='UUID-f9032e9c-7e9a-4f2c-b40e-621b0e66c47f'>
<DataType>journal</DataType>
<RecordID>f9032e9c-7e9a-4f2c-b40e-621b0e66c47f</RecordID>
<Hostname>test.foo.com</Hostname>
<HostUUID>34c90268-57ba-4d4c-a602-bdb30251ec77</HostUUID>
<Timestamp>2011-11-10T04:09:55-05:00</Timestamp>
<ProcessID>0</ProcessID>
<User name='root'>0</User>
<SecurityLabel>unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023</SecurityLabel>
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19. I'm primarily concerned with insertion rate, not query.
20. Xquery samples are not applicable at the moment.
21. I am using transactions, no special flags aside from setting them all to 'not durable'
22. Log files are currently stored on the same disk as the database.
23. I'm not using AUTO_COMMIT
24. I don't believe there are any non-transactional operations
25. best performance from 2 threads doing insertions
26. The primary way I've been testing performance is by using the 'clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME)' calls inside my test program. The test program spawns 1 or more threads, each thread inserts 10k documents. The main thread waits for all the threads to complete, then exits. I'm happy to send the source code for this program if that would be helpful.
27. As mentioned, I'm hoping to get at least 10k inserts per second.
28. db_stat outputs:
28.1 db_stat -c:
93 Last allocated locker ID
0x7fffffff Current maximum unused locker ID
9 Number of lock modes
1000 Maximum number of locks possible
1000 Maximum number of lockers possible
1000 Maximum number of lock objects possible
40 Number of lock object partitions
0 Number of current locks
166 Maximum number of locks at any one time
5 Maximum number of locks in any one bucket
0 Maximum number of locks stolen by for an empty partition
0 Maximum number of locks stolen for any one partition
0 Number of current lockers
35 Maximum number of lockers at any one time
0 Number of current lock objects
95 Maximum number of lock objects at any one time
3 Maximum number of lock objects in any one bucket
0 Maximum number of objects stolen by for an empty partition
0 Maximum number of objects stolen for any one partition
565631 Total number of locks requested
542450 Total number of locks released
0 Total number of locks upgraded
29 Total number of locks downgraded
22334 Lock requests not available due to conflicts, for which we waited
23181 Lock requests not available due to conflicts, for which we did not wait
0 Number of deadlocks
0 Lock timeout value
0 Number of locks that have timed out
0 Transaction timeout value
0 Number of transactions that have timed out
784KB The size of the lock region
10098 The number of partition locks that required waiting (0%)
866 The maximum number of times any partition lock was waited for (0%)
6 The number of object queue operations that required waiting (0%)
7220 The number of locker allocations that required waiting (2%)
0 The number of region locks that required waiting (0%)
3 Maximum hash bucket length
====================
28.2 db_stat -l:
0x40988 Log magic number
16 Log version number
31KB 256B Log record cache size
0 Log file mode
10Mb Current log file size
0 Records entered into the log
0 Log bytes written
0 Log bytes written since last checkpoint
0 Total log file I/O writes
0 Total log file I/O writes due to overflow
0 Total log file flushes
7 Total log file I/O reads
1 Current log file number
28 Current log file offset
1 On-disk log file number
28 On-disk log file offset
0 Maximum commits in a log flush
0 Minimum commits in a log flush
160KB Log region size
0 The number of region locks that required waiting (0%)
======================
28.3 db_stat -m
1GB Total cache size
1 Number of caches
1 Maximum number of caches
1GB Pool individual cache size
0 Maximum memory-mapped file size
0 Maximum open file descriptors
0 Maximum sequential buffer writes
0 Sleep after writing maximum sequential buffers
0 Requested pages mapped into the process' address space
1127961 Requested pages found in the cache (99%)
3622 Requested pages not found in the cache
7590 Pages created in the cache
3622 Pages read into the cache
7663 Pages written from the cache to the backing file
0 Clean pages forced from the cache
0 Dirty pages forced from the cache
0 Dirty pages written by trickle-sync thread
11212 Current total page count
11212 Current clean page count
0 Current dirty page count
131071 Number of hash buckets used for page location
4096 Assumed page size used
1142798 Total number of times hash chains searched for a page
1 The longest hash chain searched for a page
1127988 Total number of hash chain entries checked for page
0 The number of hash bucket locks that required waiting (0%)
0 The maximum number of times any hash bucket lock was waited for (0%)
4 The number of region locks that required waiting (0%)
0 The number of buffers frozen
0 The number of buffers thawed
0 The number of frozen buffers freed
11218 The number of page allocations
0 The number of hash buckets examined during allocations
0 The maximum number of hash buckets examined for an allocation
0 The number of pages examined during allocations
0 The max number of pages examined for an allocation
0 Threads waited on page I/O
0 The number of times a sync is interrupted
Pool File: temp.dbxml
4096 Page size
0 Requested pages mapped into the process' address space
1127961 Requested pages found in the cache (99%)
3622 Requested pages not found in the cache
7590 Pages created in the cache
3622 Pages read into the cache
7663 Pages written from the cache to the backing file
=================================
28.4 db_stat -r (n/a, no replication)
28.5 db_stat -t
0/0 No checkpoint LSN
Tue Oct 30 15:05:29 2012 Checkpoint timestamp
0x8001d4d5 Last transaction ID allocated
100 Maximum number of active transactions configured
0 Active transactions
5 Maximum active transactions
120021 Number of transactions begun
0 Number of transactions aborted
120021 Number of transactions committed
0 Snapshot transactions
0 Maximum snapshot transactions
0 Number of transactions restored
48KB Transaction region size
1385 The number of region locks that required waiting (0%)
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r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- system -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- system -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- system -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- system -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
5 0 0 865780 218028 1563828 0 0 14 30 261 87 1 1 98 0 0
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- system -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
3 0 0 859332 218028 1570108 0 0 14 30 261 87 1 1 98 0 0
$ vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- system -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
2 0 0 586756 218028 1572660 0 0 14 30 261 88 1 1 98 0 0
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- system -----cpu------
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================================
sda1 is mount on /boot
sda2 is mounted on /
sda3 is swap space
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Linux 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 (localhost.localdomain) 10/30/2012
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
27.43 0.00 4.42 1.18 0.00 66.96
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sda 0.00 46.53 0.00 2.97 0.00 396.04 133.33 0.04 14.33 14.33 4.26
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 46.53 0.00 2.97 0.00 396.04 133.33 0.04 14.33 14.33 4.26
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
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Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
40.51 0.00 27.85 0.00 0.00 31.65
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
40.50 0.00 26.75 0.50 0.00 32.25
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 3.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 40.00 20.00 0.03 17.00 17.00 3.40
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 3.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 40.00 20.00 0.03 17.00 17.00 3.40
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
30.63 0.00 32.91 0.00 0.00 36.46
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
29.57 0.00 32.83 0.00 0.00 37.59
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
29.65 0.00 32.41 0.00 0.00 37.94
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
46.70 0.00 26.40 0.00 0.00 26.90
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
32.72 0.00 33.25 0.00 0.00 34.04
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 7.00 0.00 57.00 0.00 512.00 8.98 2.25 39.54 0.82 4.70
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 7.00 0.00 57.00 0.00 512.00 8.98 2.25 39.54 0.82 4.70
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
32.08 0.00 31.83 0.00 0.00 36.09
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
33.75 0.00 31.50 0.00 0.00 34.75
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
33.00 0.00 31.99 0.25 0.00 34.76
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 3.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 40.00 20.00 0.05 24.00 24.00 4.80
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 3.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 40.00 20.00 0.05 24.00 24.00 4.80
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
53.62 0.00 21.70 0.00 0.00 24.69
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
33.92 0.00 22.11 0.00 0.00 43.97
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
8.53 0.00 4.44 0.00 0.00 87.03
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
5.58 0.00 2.15 0.00 0.00 92.27
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.00 0.00 1.56 12.50 0.00 85.94
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 9.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 80.00 80.00 0.23 86.00 233.00 23.30
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 9.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 80.00 80.00 0.23 86.00 233.00 23.30
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
1.49 0.00 11.90 0.00 0.00 86.61
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 8.00 8.00 0.04 182.00 35.00 3.50
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 8.00 8.00 0.04 182.00 35.00 3.50
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.26 0.00 21.82 0.00 0.00 77.92
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.00 0.00 20.48 0.00 0.00 79.52
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
9.49 0.00 13.33 0.00 0.00 77.18
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
20.35 0.00 4.77 0.00 0.00 74.87
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
6.32 0.00 13.22 1.72 0.00 78.74
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 15302.97 0.99 161.39 7.92 34201.98 210.68 65.27 87.75 3.93 63.76
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 15302.97 0.99 161.39 7.92 34201.98 210.68 65.27 87.75 3.93 63.76
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
1.83 0.00 5.49 1.22 0.00 91.46
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 21.00 0.00 95.00 0.00 91336.00 961.43 43.76 1003.00 7.18 68.20
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 21.00 0.00 95.00 0.00 91336.00 961.43 43.76 1003.00 7.18 68.20
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
===================

Installation Problem in SAPNW7.0 with Oracle on RHEL5.4

Hi Everyone,
I am installing SAP NETWEAVER7.0 SR3 with ORACLE 10.2.0.4 on RHEL5.4 Operating System. I have installed the java
and i have install the ORACLE 10.2.0.4 Successfully. I set the environment variable in vi .bash_profile and i set the kernal parameters with their values in vi /etc/sysctl.conf file then run the command sysctl -p. Later i run the ./sapinst script the cd /NW7.0/
BS_Installation Master_2005/ IM_LINUX_x86_64. It went fine up to the 24th phase. At the 24th phase "start instance" i got the error.
The error message is
" ERROR 2010-10-10 12:03:03.542
CJS-20022 Could not start instance 'DVEBMGS00' of SAP system QAS"
I did try my level best to resolve it. Can any one tell me what could be the issue and how to resolve it.
Thanks

startdb.log
Sun Oct 10 16:45:11 IST 2010
LOGFILE FOR STARTING ORACLE
Trying to start QAS database ...
Sun Oct 10 16:45:11 IST 2010
checking required environment variables
ORACLE_HOME is >/oracle/QAS/102_64<
ORACLE_SID is >QAS<
Sun Oct 10 16:45:11 IST 2010
check initora
Sun Oct 10 16:45:11 IST 2010
check initora
Sun Oct 10 16:45:11 IST 2010
checking V2 connect
TNS Ping Utility for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 10-OCT-2010 16:45:11
Copyright (c) 1997, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
/usr/sap/QAS/SYS/profile/oracle/sqlnet.ora
Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (COMMUNITY = SAP.WORLD) (PROTOCOL = TCP) (HOST = quality) (PORT = 1527))) (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = QAS) (GLOBAL_NAME = QAS.WORLD)))
OK (10 msec)
tnsping: V2 connect to QAS
Sun Oct 10 16:45:11 IST 2010
Connect to the database to check the database state:
R3trans: connect check finished with return code: 12
Database not available
Sun Oct 10 16:45:11 IST 2010
Shutdown database
First trying to shutdown the database - May be,
the database is in the nomount or mount state
Sun Oct 10 16:45:12 IST 2010
starting database
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sun Oct 10 16:45:12 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
ORA-09925: Unable to create audit trail file
Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied

Unable to startup 12c RAC database, can't open spfile in ASM

hello,
I'm testing 12cRAC database on RHEL5 and need your help to troubleshoot and fix the following issue -
DBCA fails at the end of the configuration to create and startup new RAC database with the following errors
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
ORA-01565: error in identifying file '+DATA/TDB1/spfileTDB1.ora'
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DATA/TDB1/spfileTDB1.ora
ORA-15056: additional error message
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DATA/TDB1/spfiletdb1.ora
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
I also tried executing script (which was created by DBCA) to create the new DB manually and got the same results - it happens during first attempt to start it up using SPFILE after new DB was successfully created (it was started up using pfile)
Clusterware with ASM install was successful, binaries were also installed without issues,
cluster seems healthy, I see correct files within ASM using asmcmd etc ..
got stuck here and need some directions ... very confused by ORA-01017 password error
wonder if anyone had same or similar issues ?
Thank you !

Fixed.
Thank you everyone for suggestions and recommendations -
ASM is accessible using asmcmd and I can see all the DB files incuding spfile, they were created by DBCA, alert log showed same information I posted
After extensive troubleshooting and testing the issue was idedntified and fixed - 'dba' group needs to be the primary group for 'oracle' user, not the secondary one. I suspected that something was not right with 'oracle' user access to asm based on that strange password error. There is more I need to check as the issue and fix with swapping groups seems strange. Secondary group is not enough ti have proper rights ??? my first reaction was - seriously ? wtf ?
Anyway - I need to move one now ...
Thank you again !

Duplicate target database for standby failing with below error

Hello All, Need your assistance
We are creating a physical standby database (standalone) from 2 node RAC database, OS =RHEL5 and DB =11gR2
What we did: We took RMAN backup of primary DB along with archives and copied to standby server in same location. We have modified necessory prameters on primary as well as standby too.
The command we used :
RMAN>connect target sys/pwd@primary auxiliary sys/pwd@stdby
RMAN> run {
allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type disk;
duplicate target database for standby dorecover nofilenamecheck;
release channel ch1;
Note we tried : duplicate target database for standby as well as duplicate target database for standby nofilenamecheck methods too....But no luck..we are getting following error.
channel ch1: reading from backup piece /u01/BDB/BWFCCPRD_5fmpdvce_1_1
channel ch1: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece /u01/BDB/BWFCCPRD_5fmpdvce_1_1
ORA-19501: read error on file "/u01/BDB/BWFCCPRD_5fmpdvce_1_1", block number 121856 (block size=8192)
ORA-27072: File I/O error
Additional information: 4
Additional information: 121856
Additional information: 1036288
failover to previous backup
released channel: ch1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 10/20/2011 09:16:11
RMAN-05501: aborting duplication of target database
RMAN-05556: not all datafiles have backups that can be recovered to SCN 41855007833
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 4 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 2 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 1 found to restore
could you pease help to resolve this ....?
Note : Creating standby using RMAN 11g new feature : duplicate target database for standby from active database is not possible in our environment since the network bandwith is tooooo low, We have tried and not able to succeed because of n/w issue, So we are doing this alternate method...!!!
Looking for your valuable advises...
Thanks in Advance....

Take the fresh backup and also check the space crunch. The below clink may help you
ORA-27072: File I/O error Additional information: 2
--neeraj
Edited by: Vishen on Oct 20, 2011 2:14 PM

Can't mount oracle database on linux system

This is same as previous posting just added
e-mail and username info fo forum posting.
I am not able to mount an Oracle database.
I am new to Oracle and am working on an Oracle8i installation on an
Intel Linux Suse 6.3 platform. I am using only one harddrive and am
not using the 4 mount points as mentioned for efficiecy purposes in
the Oracle documentation..I am using the installation cd from Oracle8i
for Linux Starter Kit by Oracle Press. If anyone has this book they
can refer to pages 41-44 for the examples I followed.
As sysdba in sqplplus using the STARTUP command I can not Mount the
database -step 2 of the 3 stage process (Start, Mount and Open the
database) of opening an Oracle database.
I show the errors I encountered when I did the first 2 of the 3 steps
in the step-by-step mode (STARTUP NOMOUNT pfile=, ALTER DATABASE
MOUNT) in the sqlplus session and alert log respectively with startup
nomount and alter database mount for this sqlplus session.
Additionally I show the init.ora file lines referring to control file
which seem to be referred to by the sqlplus error messages and the
alert.log file. Perhaps some can give me some advice as what I can try
to fix this problem.
At the end of this e-mail I added several questions I had in regard to the control
files. Any help is appreciated.
Well, here are the sqlplus session results and its alert.log file:
Oracle sqlplus session usr/oracle as sysdba
oracle@CHESTNUT:~ > sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production on Mon Mar 19 20:47:49 2001
(c) Copyright 1999 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Enter user-name: usr/oracle as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup nomount pfile=/usr/oracle/dbs/init.ora ;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 24989680 bytes
Fixed Size 69616 bytes
Variable Size 24637440 bytes
Database Buffers 204800 bytes
Redo Buffers 77824 bytes
SQL> alter database mount ;
alter database mount
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00205: error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more
info
SQL> shutdown immediate ;
ORA-01507: database not mounted
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> exit
Disconnected
oracle@CHESTNUT:~ >
alert.log file for above session
Mon Mar 19 20:48:38 2001
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 8.1.6.1.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
processes = 50
shared_pool_size = 3500000
control_files = ora_control1, ora_control2
db_block_buffers = 100
log_buffer = 32768
log_checkpoint_interval = 10000
db_files = 80
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 8
global_names = TRUE
db_name = DEFAULT
parallel_max_servers = 5
max_dump_file_size = 10240
PMON started with pid=2
Load Indicator not supported by OS !
DBW0 started with pid=3
LGWR started with pid=4
CKPT started with pid=5
SMON started with pid=6
RECO started with pid=7
Mon Mar 19 20:48:58 2001
alter database mount
Mon Mar 19 20:48:58 2001
ORA-00202: controlfile: 'ora_control1'
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Mon Mar 19 20:49:01 2001
ORA-205 signalled during: alter database mount
Mon Mar 19 20:49:12 2001
Shutting down instance (immediate)
License high water mark = 1
Mon Mar 19 20:49:12 2001
ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
ORA-1507 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL...
archiving is disabled
init.ora control files
# define two control files by default
control_files = (ora_control1, ora_control2)
Here are my control file questions:
I need to know several points:
1) What are control files susposed to
contain and how would I recognize them?
I used the
unix find /usr/oracle \*ctl* -print
command to locate files with a ctl extension.
This resulted in about a dozen such files in
different directories as shown below:
./bin/lsnrctl
./bin/extractlib
./bin/agtctl
./bin/oidctl
./bin/lsnrctl0
./bin/agtctlO
./rdbms/demo/ulcase1.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase10.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase2.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase3.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase4.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase5.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase6.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase7.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase8.ctl
./rdbms/demo/ulcase9.ctl
./ldap/load/dn.ctl
./ldap/load/attr_store.ctl
./ord/ts/demo/tsquick/tsquick.ctl
./ord/ts/demo/usageutl/utildat.ctl
./ord/ts/demo/usage/stockdat.ctl
./ord/ts/demo/usage/stockinc.ctl
./ord/ts/demo/retrofit/sales.ctl
./ord/ts/demo/retrofit/sales2.ctl
./ord/ts/demo/applet/indexdemo.ctl
./javavm/admin/libjox8com_sun_jndi_ldap_ctl.so
./md/demo/examples/migctl.h
./md/demo/examples/migctl.c
2) On page 100 in the book Oracle 8i A Beginners's
by Oracle Press mention is made of a
CREATE CONTROLFILE command that can under
circumstances be used to re-create a control-file.
but that is all that is said about it. Perhaps
you might know something more about it.
3) Would you recommend any good text for
Oracle DBA's, especially for the problem of the sort
that I am encountering?
[email protected]
null

It's probably not supported on RHEL5/Centos5/etc., but...
You can get the installer to function using the following steps:
- extract the cal_linux_*.tar.gz, and cd into the OracleCalendar_inst directory
In there is the actual installer, cal_linux.
- the cal_linux is shell script wrapped around some binary blobs. The installer's
problem is that Oracle is setting the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 environment
variable, which is a mistake on RHEL5. You need to make it not set that variable,
but you need to do so in a way that the size of the shell script does not change at all,
and none of the binary blobs are impacted.
- the approach I took was
mv cal_linux cal_linux.BAK
sed -e 's/LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5/LD_ASSUME_KERNEL= /g' < cal_linux.BAK > cal_linux
chmod a+rx cal_linux
cal_linux -i gui
Note: you must have exactly 5 spaces in the substitution part of the sed command, because you're replacing 5 characters (2.2.5), and the size of the shell script must not change.
If you do that, the installer should run (one warning from awk still) and you should be able to install the product.
Tim

How can i generate a large SCN for database

Hi,
On databases where SCN number is larger that 2^32 , my application seems to work in a weird way. Am trying to get this re produced in my test setup , but am unable to pump up the SCN number to such a large value.
I am trying this on RHEL5-64 bit and WIN2003-64 bit with Oracle 11gR2 using a script which does some table creation , deletion etc.
Does any one know any method to increase the SCN value ? This would be of great help.
--Amith

Simply selecting a row from v$database, in a loop, will increase the current SCN. Don't ask me why this happens as I do not have an answer for the same.
SQL> select current_scn from v$database;
CURRENT_SCN
2944216219
1 row selected.
SQL> select current_scn from v$database;
CURRENT_SCN
2944216221
1 row selected.
SQL> select current_scn from v$database;
CURRENT_SCN
2944216222
1 row selected.
SQL>

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