AW: kernel bug

Hi Frank,

This patch has fixed/worked for some customers (not all). I
will highly recommend to file bug as this will help to raise
severity of this bug. This is a serious kernel AIO bug and
only workaround at this time is to disable AIO (as you
mentioned).

Regards,
Arun

<frank.westheiderwestheider.de> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The patch is not helping.
> We are currently running 2.6.5-7.282.PTF.165140-smp
> 
> We already tried this...opened a TAR with Oracle,
openend an issue with
> Novell...got 2 fixes from Novell, but both are not
helping around the bug.
> The database crashes after approx. 1 week of heavy load
and you have to
> restart the machine to free the ipc-resources.
> 
> After several attempts to speed up Novell fixing this
issue...we gave up and
> turned off Async-IO. Now we're hoping for the next
service-pack to fix this
> issue.
> 
> Sad...but Novell was not really helping us....they are
currently only
> stealing time and hoping, that we close the case and
work without async-io.
> 
> Bye
>   Frank 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Arun Singh [mailto:Arun.Singhnovell.com] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 18. Dezember 2006 17:03
> An: SuSE MailingList
> Betreff: Re: [suse-oracle] kernel bug
> 
> Hi Toni,
> 
> <Anton.Dischnermed.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>> an advice for Oracle 9.x was to
>> 
>>  >Correct procedure will be upgrade to latest
kernel (.282) and ask 
> 
>> Novell
>>  >Tech support to provide a fix (PTF) for this
problem.
>> 
>> Is this the way for Oracle 10.1.0.5 too?
>> 
>> We are running kernel 2.6.5-7.257
> 
> Yes, Please apply latest kernel which is .282 and file
bug with NTS, If
> it doesn't help.
> 
> Regards,
> Arun
> 
> 
> 





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