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Martin Klier

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Oracle on Windows: ASM instance terminated by LMON / ORA-27300 IPC_TCPConnectCheck failed with status -1

Recently I had an issue with a two-node Grid Infrastructure on Windows 2012R2. After an infrastructure-caused cluster restart (irresponsible SAN hardware patching 🙂 ), everything was running on Node 2, and Node 1 could not join the cluster any more. No easy solution: On CSSD level, there was no issue (network and disk heartbeat worked, […]

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Oracle on SLES12 SP2 – Avoiding Cgroup Task Limit

Once upon a time, there was an Oracle RAC cluster 12.2.0.1 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP2, that did not do well. Its database and ASM instances used to fail with: ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:fork failed with status: 11 ORA-27301: OS failure message: Resource temporarily unavailable ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpspawn3 Of […]

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Oracle 12.2 sysctl.conf Default Preinstall Settings

This are the currently active settings, the oracle-database-server-12cR2-preinstall.rpm delivers on Oracle Linux 7. Maybe it’s useful for you when setting up Oracle 12.2 on SUSE / SLES where you are on your own. Maybe you also want to add Huge Pages: # Performing Databases Huge Page Settings # for SGA size 200GB and huge page […]

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Oracle RAC 12.2 on SLES12 – How to disable Hardware Lock Elision Support

The Problem In the last week, I had to set up an Oracle RAC (and thus, the Clusterware) version 12.2.0.1 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 (SLES12 Sp2). The gridSetup.sh failed latest in root.sh of the first node with a kinda non-intuitive error: CRS-5804: Communication error with agent process CRS-4000: Command Start failed, or […]

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Restarting Oracle for Performance is like a Coitus for Virginity

Today I had another case of that … total breakdown of a live environment by infrastructure defect, bad enough. Customer rushing up the database and all apps services, just to see thousands of locks and hanging transactions. Big panic, frequent restarting of databases and applications. Getting worse, finally calling me. Told them I’ll manage that, asked […]

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Oracle RMAN destination with variable restrains “not backed up” clause

Today I was a bit surprised – being always under the impression that Oracle RMAN should accept “backup backupset not backed up to destination ‘xyz’” AND work with it successfully. But I learned that in 11.2.0.4 the Oracle RMAN “to destination” containing variables restrains the “not backed up” clause. No error thrown, but just does not work […]

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Oracle Database 12.2 on-premises release dates

Oracle recently announced the availability of Oracle Database 12c release 2 (12.2) for on-premises servers. https://www.performing-databases.com/en/2017/01/oracle-database-12-2-on-premises-release-dates/ Linux x86-64, Solaris SPARC and Solaris x86-64: 15-Mar-2017 Other supported platforms (Windows x86-64, IBM AIX on POWER, IBM Linux on System z, HP UX Itanium): Q2CY2017 Source: MOS DOc ID 742060.1 […]

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