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which setting defines behaviour when paging space runs full ?

Hi,

I have a bunch of AIX systems which usually have more than enough memory to live happily. Unfortunately we have on a few of our boxes an rman runaway problem - every now and than after restoring from rman backups, the process goes crazy and eats all memory it could possibly get hold off - sometimes 100 gig and more just in a couple of minutes ... and oracle cannot find the root cause for this for months ...

Since this happens to real business critical DB boxes, my question: does anyone know which memory setting is responsible for the behaviour on an AIX 5.3 lpar when paging space runs full?

I have a few boxes that recycle themselves, others start just forking / hanging / killing randomly processes to survive - where is no point as AIX usually thinks killing the DBs is a great idea - so a system restart would be my preferred behaviour as this is anyways what I have to do when the box hangs - and the boxes that do it themselves save me a lot of paperwork / hazzle - and are usually fine for months afterwards Smilie

I know I know - solving the problem should be highest priority and we are working on it - but until than ... I want restarts Smilie

Kind regards
zxmaus
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CACHEINFO(5)							AFS File Reference						      CACHEINFO(5)

NAME
cacheinfo - Defines configuration parameters for the Cache Manager DESCRIPTION
The cacheinfo file defines configuration parameters for the Cache Manager, which reads the file as it initializes. The file contains a single line of ASCII text and must reside in the /etc/openafs directory. Use a text editor to create it during initial configuration of the client machine; the required format is as follows: <mount>:<cache>:<size> where <mount> Names the local disk directory at which the Cache Manager mounts the AFS namespace. It must exist before the afsd program runs. The conventional value is /afs. Using any other value prevents traversal of pathnames that begin with /afs (such as pathnames to files in foreign cells that do use the conventional name). The -mountdir argument to the afsd command overrides this value. <cache> Names the local disk directory to use as a cache. It must exist before the afsd program runs. The standard value is /usr/vice/cache, but it is acceptable to substitute a directory on a partition with more available space. Although the Cache Manager ignores this field when configuring a memory cache, a value must always appear in it. The -cachedir argument to the afsd command overrides this value. <size> Specifies the cache size as a number of 1-kilobyte blocks. Larger caches generally yield better performance, but a disk cache must not exceed 90% of the space available on the cache partition (85% for AIX systems), and a memory cache must use no more than 25% of available machine memory. The -blocks argument to the afsd command overrides this value. To reset cache size without rebooting on a machine that uses disk caching, use the fs setcachesize command. To display the current size of a disk or memory cache between reboots, use the fs getcacheparms command. EXAMPLES
The following example cacheinfo file mounts the AFS namespace at /afs, establishes a disk cache in the /usr/vice/cache directory, and defines cache size as 50,000 1-kilobyte blocks. /afs:/usr/vice/cache:50000 SEE ALSO
afsd(8), fs_getcacheparms(1), fs_setcachesize(1) COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved. This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. OpenAFS 2012-03-26 CACHEINFO(5)