Oracle11g RAC with partitioning and cross instance parallel query problem

Question

I have set up a 300gb TPC-H database using a 4 node RAC environment (8 cpu per node, 16 GB memory, 2 GHz processors) the system is served by 2.5 terabytes of SSD for its IO subsystem managed by a combination of ASM and OCFS2.
When I run a large parallel query (number 9 in the TPCH query set) I get:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments [kxfrGraDistNum3],[65535],[4]
with all other arguments blank. There were some reports of this in version 9, but it was supposedly fixed. Has any one seen this behavior or have a work around?
Mike

Answer 1

Good Idea! Why didn't I think of that? Oh yea...I did. Unfortunately TMS CSI is an update only partner type CSI so I cannot submit a SR. The 600 lookup was how I found the old stuff, but it didn't have any 11g references. I hoped maybe someone in the community had encountered this and had a workaround. By the way, the querey looks like so:
select
nation,
o_year,
sum(amount) as sum_profit
from
select
n_name as nation,
extract(year from o_orderdate) as o_year,
l_extendedprice * (1 - l_discount) - ps_supplycost * l_quantity as amount
from
h_part,
h_supplier,
h_lineitem,
h_partsupp,
h_order,
h_nation
where
s_suppkey = l_suppkey
and ps_suppkey = l_suppkey
and ps_partkey = l_partkey
and p_partkey = l_partkey
and o_orderkey = l_orderkey
and s_nationkey = n_nationkey
and p_name like '%spring%'
) as profit
group by
nation,
o_year
order by
nation,
o_year desc;
the other 21 queries, all using the same tables and degrees of paralell and cross instance settings, executed ok.
Mike