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Miscellaneous Topics

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Contents

Additions to Lesson 8
Additions to Lesson 10

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Load Balancing Advisory Workflow in RAC

ODP.NET/
OCI pools

JDBC
Connection Pool
Manager

6
7

ONS

Deal work
per instance

Instances for
aging

JDBC Connection Pool

5

Runtime
Connection
Load
Balancing

Connection
load
balancing
Listener
CLB_GOAL=SHORT

GOAL NONE

ONS

RACG
IMON

3
EMON

MMON
Master

AQ

Advisory
messages

MMNL

PMON

2a

AWR service metrics

Oracle RAC Database

B-3

3a

Local

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Closed Workload
BATCH work requests

Service with
a set maximum of
work requests
allowed

Set connections in pool:

#max_workers x #nodes
(Lots of spares)

Connection Cache

33%

?
33%

33%

RAC
Inst1

B-4

RAC
BATCH is
fine.

BATCH is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
BATCH is
fine.

Inst3

Closed Workload: Steady State

BATCH work requests

Set connection load

balancing:
CLB_GOAL = LONG

Set Load Balancing

Advisory goal:
GOAL NONE
Connection Cache

33%

?
33%

33%

RAC
Inst1

B-5

RAC
BATCH is
fine.

BATCH is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
BATCH is
fine.

Inst3

Closed Workload: More Work

CLB_GOAL = LONG

GOAL NONE

BATCH work requests

Max reached
(in this case)

Non-BATCH
work requests

Non-BATCH
work requests

Connection Cache

33%

?
33%

33%

RAC
Inst1

B-6

RAC
BATCH is
very busy.

BATCH is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
BATCH is
busy.

Inst3

Closed Workload: Reaction

CLB_GOAL = LONG

BATCH work requests

GOAL NONE

Use Load Balancing

Advisory only to distribute
work in the pool.

Connection Cache

10%

?
30%

60%

RAC
Inst1

B-7

RAC
BATCH is
very busy.

BATCH is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
BATCH is
busy.

Inst3

Open Workload
CLB_GOAL = LONG

CRM work requests

GOAL NONE
Set connections in pool:
reasonable
(based on RAC capacity)

Service with
NO set maximum of
work requests

Connection Cache

33%

?
33%

33%

RAC
Inst1

B-8

RAC
CRM is
fine.

CRM is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
CRM is
fine.

Inst3

Open Workload: Steady State

CRM work requests

Set connection load

balancing:
CLB_GOAL = SHORT

Set Load Balancing

Advisory goal:
GOAL NONE
Connection Cache

33%

?
33%

33%

RAC
Inst1

B-9

RAC
CRM is
fine.

CRM is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
CRM is
fine.

Inst3

Open Workload: More Work

CLB_GOAL = SHORT

CRM work requests

GOAL NONE

Non-CRM
work requests

Non-CRM
work requests

Connection Cache

33%

?
33%

33%

RAC
Inst1

B - 10

RAC
CRM is
very busy.

CRM is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
CRM is
busy.

Inst3

Open Workload: Reaction

CLB_GOAL = SHORT

CRM work requests

GOAL NONE

Use Load Balancing

Advisory at two levels.

Connection Cache

10%

?
30%

60%

Gravitation

RAC
Inst1

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RAC
CRM is
very busy.

CRM is
fine.

Inst2

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RAC
CRM is
busy.

Inst3

OCR-Related Tools Debugging

OCR tools:

ocrdump
ocrconfig
ocrcheck
srvctl

Logs generated in
$ORA_CRS_HOME/log/<hostname>/client/

Debugging control through

$ORA_CRS_HOME/srvm/admin/ocrlog.ini
mesg_logging_level = 5
comploglvl="OCRAPI:5 ; OCRSRV:5; OCRCAC:5; OCRMAS:5; OCRCONF:5; OCRRAW:5"
comptrclvl="OCRAPI:5 ; OCRSRV:5; OCRCAC:5; OCRMAS:5; OCRCONF:5; OCRRAW:5"

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Enable Resource Debugging

Change USR_ORA_DEBUG resource attribute to 1 for

specific resources:
# crsctl debug log res "ora.atlhp8.vip:1"

Set the environment variable _USR_ORA_DEBUG to 1 in

racgwrap scripts to debug for all resources:
# Set _USR_ORA_DEBUG to enable more tracing
#_USR_ORA_DEBUG=1 && export _USR_ORA_DEBUG
_USR_ORA_DEBUG=1
export _USR_ORA_DEBUG
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/racgmain "$@
status=$?
exit $status
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Enable Oracle Clusterware Modules Debugging

crsctl
lsmodule

debug

log
crs

css

trace

statedump

evm

$ crsctl lsmodules crs

The following are the CRS modules :
CRSUI
CRSCOMM CRSRTI
CRSMAIN
CRSCOMM CRSOCR
CRSTIMER CRSEVT
COMMCRS COMMNS

CRSPLACE
CRSD

CRSAPP
CLUCLS

CRSRES
CSSCLNT

# crsctl debug log crs CRSEVT:5,CRSAPP:5,CRSTIMER:5,CRSRES:5

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Enable Tracing for Java-Based Tools

To enable tracing for:
cluvfy
netca
vipca

srvctl
gsdctl

Set SRVM_TRACE to TRUE:

$ export SRVM_TRACE=TRUE
$ srvctl config database d xwkE > /tmp/srvctl.trc
$ cat /tmp/srvctl.trc
/u01/app/oracle/product/Crs/jdk/jre/bin/java -classpath
/u01/app/oracle/product/Crs/jlib/netcfg.jar:
srvctl.jar -DTRACING.ENABLED=true -DTRACING.LEVEL=2
oracle.ops.opsctl.OPSCTLDriver config database -d xwkE
[main] [9:47:27:454] [OPSCTLDriver.setInternalDebugLevel:165]
tracing is true at level 2 to file null
[main] [9:47:27:496] [OPSCTLDriver.<init>:95] Security manager
is set

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RAC Diagnostic Infrastructure: Overview

Node2
SGA
Trace buffer Pi
Pi
Trace buffer Pj
Pj
DIAG

Online tools

x$trace
x$trace_events
oradebug
alter tracing
alter system set

Node1

Node2

Node3

SGA

SGA

SGA

DIAG

DIAG

DIAG
Offline tools

Trace navigation
Trace loader

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DIAG Trace Control Interfaces

Initialization parameter TRACE_ENABLED

SQL:
X$TRACE_EVENTS and X$TRACE
ALTER TRACING ON|OFF|ENABLE|DISABLE|FLUSH
ALTER SYSTEM SET

oradebug:
RAC aware
Clusterwide hang analyzer
System and process state dumps

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DIAG Crash Dumps

Crash dump (clusterwide) by DIAG processes when

detecting the death of a fatal Oracle process:
Local system state dump
Remote SGA buffers dump

If a RAC instance crashes:

Second last process to terminate
Allowed to dump trace

Local DIAG coordinates dumping of trace buffers on

remote nodes.
Dumps in the cdmp_<timestamp> directory under
background dump destination

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DIAG Trace Control Interface: Examples

SQL> alter tracing enable "10425:10:135";

SQL> SELECT trclevel,status,procs FROM x$trace_events

2> WHERE event=10425;

SQL> alter tracing disable "ALL";

SQL> alter tracing flush;

SQL> oradebug setmypid

Statement processed.
SQL> oradebug setinst all
Statement processed.
SQL> oradebug -g def hanganalyze 3
Hang Analysis in

/u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/racdb/racdb1/trace/racdb1_diag_11347.trc

SQL>

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Hang Analysis with 11gR1: Example

$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Nov 2 22:51:24 2007
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SQL> set _prelim on

SQL> connect / as sysdba
Prelim connection established
SQL> oradebug setorapname reco
Oracle pid: 19, Unix process pid: 11381, image:
oracle@edcdr12p1.us.oracle.com (RECO)
SQL> oradebug dump hanganalyze_global 1
Statement processed.
SQL> oradebug dump systemstate_global 267
Statement processed.
SQL> oradebug setorapname diag
Oracle pid: 4, Unix process pid: 11347, image:
oracle@edcdr12p1.us.oracle.com (DIAG)
SQL> oradebug tracefile_name
/u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/racdb1/racdb11/trace/racdb11_diag_11347.trc
SQL>

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New 11gR1 Background Processes

Background
Process Name

Short Description

ACMS

Ensure distributed SGA memory updates

DBRM

DataBase Resource Manager

DIAG

Performs diagnostic dumps

DIA0

Hang detection and deadlock resolution

EMNC

Event management and notifications coordination

GTXn

Provides XA support in RAC

KATE

ASM metafile proxy

MARK

Mark AU as stale when disk goes offline

PING

Measure interconnect latency

VKTM

Provides clock information in RAC

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