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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:22:22 -0600 (CST)
From: matthew <matthew@mattshouse.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > > Of course, this also depends on the amount of people willing
> > > to test out new VM patches and/or help with development.
> > 
> > As you know I am doing regular thrash tests and I am willing to do
> > this further. I would hate to see a customer go down because his
> > machine becomes unusable. IMHO we should try to fix this during 2.4.
> 
> Agreed. Also, we don't have to have the thrashing control
> be too friendly, as long as it is effective and simple ;)


Here's an update.  I never lost control of the machine, so after about 24
hours I decided to try to fix it without the use of the Big Red
Switch.  There were still > 1000 connections showing, and pstools were
unresponsive, so I did:

ls /proc > killscript
added "kill -9" to the beginning and "\" to the end of each line,
ran it as the database user.  It worked pretty well.  After about 5
minutes it killed all of the oracle processes and the machine appeared to
have returned to normal.  I've since installed Oracle 81610 and everything
looks good.

Matthew


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