ORA-00494: enqueue [CF] held for too long (more than 900 seconds)

Question

Hi ,
I am getting this error , the database is in no archive mode and there is frequent log switch.
However following few metalink notes I have set the hidden parameters like
killcontrolfile_enqueue_blocker=false
killenqueue_blocker=1
I wanted to reduce the frequece log switch how to reduce it.
ORA-00494: enqueue [CF] held for too long (more than 900 seconds) by 'inst 1

Answer 1

One way is to make the size of the redo logs bigger and another way is to do some less work :)
Changing Redo Log File SizesEach Redo Log File member in a Group must be identical in size. If you need to make your Redo Log Files larger, use the following steps.
1. Use the V$LOG view to identify the current active Redo Log Group.
SQL> SELECT group#, status FROM v$log;
GROUP# STATUS
1 INACTIVE
2 INACTIVE
3 CURRENT
4 INACTIVE
2. Drop one or more of the inactive Redo Log Groups keeping at least two current On-line Redo Log Groups.
3. Use operating system commands to delete the files that stored the dropped Redo Log Files.
4. Recreate the groups with larger file sizes. Continue this sequence until all groups have been resized.
Edited by: TSharma on Jan 17, 2013 11:52 AM