Negative impact on Oracle DB after Solaris recommended patching


 
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# 8  
Old 05-23-2013
Hi MadeInGermany,

During the performance degradation, below was the status from top o/p

195 processes: 175 sleeping, 13 running, 1 zombie, 6 on cpu
CPU states: 0.0% idle, 78.4% user, 21.6% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 32G phys mem, 16G free mem, 70G total swap, 70G free swap


PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
18964 oracle 39 41 0 6389M 5488M cpu/1 2:50 15.04% oracle
19638 oracle 26 59 0 6390M 5490M run 0:27 8.58% oracle
19648 oracle 36 31 0 6418M 5516M run 0:21 5.92% oracle
19023 oracle 34 30 0 6398M 5498M run 0:37 5.88% oracle
7229 oracle 38 30 0 6427M 5514M run 234:24 5.69% oracle
6912 oracle 45 31 0 6395M 5483M cpu/16 218:04 5.31% oracle
7216 oracle 28 31 0 6430M 5517M run 232:40 5.04% oracle
19644 oracle 35 40 0 6390M 5490M cpu/17 0:24 4.74% oracle
6897 oracle 112 30 0 6392M 5479M run 236:38 4.52% oracle
3813 oracle 106 31 0 6428M 5528M run 100:11 4.43% oracle
18970 oracle 234 31 0 6398M 5499M cpu/0 1:45 4.15% oracle
19749 oracle 1 32 0 6386M 5486M run 0:00 4.05% oracle
19646 oracle 23 31 0 6405M 5505M run 0:25 3.61% oracle
18972 oracle 11 32 0 6398M 5497M run 2:18 3.61% oracle
7220 oracle 258 32 0 6468M 5555M cpu/3 113:13 3.56% oracle


So approximately, there was an 80 - 20 ratio between user% and system% of cpu utilisation. Same thing i confirmed from vmstat as well.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions based on above log.

---------- Post updated at 01:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:45 PM ----------

Hi All,

In addition to this, i just wanted to know whether any of you have ever faced a performance problem in oracle DB after solaris patching ? I find this highly improbable, Just let me know your response on this .
# 9  
Old 05-24-2013
Oracle

Have you captured all the logs before you went for patching.

Like Shared memory / cache settings in /etc/system


Also.. Try to understand the DB/ Application (how it works) ,
How much GB does your DB needs..
What are the scheduled cron jobs.. Are the LUNS allocated to zpools or disk having any issues..

does your zpool having any permananent errors..

/var/adm/messages will help...
# 10  
Old 06-15-2013
if the patches installed were os patches, there is a possibility that some corruption to the db has occured especially if the db was active during the patch install ... however -- whether or not db was active during patching -- if possible, restore a pre-patch copy of the db into another directory and see if that works better ...
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