ASMLIB for IA64???

Hello,

 

 

Does anybody know when ASMLib 2.0 will be available for
ia64.

 

(We need to migrate two Itanium servers to SLES10 with
Oracle 10g R2 / RAC -
Standard Edition)

 

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Dimitri Bougoulias

HI,

AM DONNERSTAG 26 JULI 2007 11:42 SCHRIEB DIMITRIOS
BOUGOULIAS:
> (WE NEED TO MIGRATE TWO ITANIUM SERVERS TO SLES10 WITH
ORACLE 10G R2 / RAC
> - STANDARD EDITION)
IF YOU DO NOT ABSOLUTELY NEED ASMLIB (I DON'T LIKE IT), UDEV
IS A GREAT FRIED 
OF YOURS: IN /DEV/DISK/BY-ID YOU HAVE ALL DEVICES E.G. FROM
A SAN ENVIRONMENT 
ZONED TO YOU. TAKE THESE INTO /ETC/RAW AND ACCESS RAW DVICES
DIREKTLY. NO 
MANAGEMENT OVERHEAD, NO COMPLEXITY. JUST A
SUGGESTION/WORKAROUND, DEPENDS ON 
YOUR ATTITUDE 

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You DON'T NEED ASM library for ASM. Just use raw devices and
forget about 
ASMLib. ASMLib is just a piece of junk, doing nothing
usefull.

You must:
- create raw devices using /etc/init.d/raw service or
modified variation (I 
ise rawnames service);
- start dbca, ask to create ASM, and assign these (one or
more) raw disks to 
asm.

When working with RAC, if root.sh can't initiate OCRFile
(which must be a 
raw disk) or CSSFile, have a few tips:
- sometimes it can't work with partitions,. sometimes with
the whole disk. 
Looks as an oracle bug (10.2 only);
- CSSFile must be owned by oracle, 'disk' group is not
enough. To change 
ownership of the raw device, use

But I'd better advice against SLES10 , Itanium and RAC
together. Take SLES9 
SP3 _or_ take AMD/Intel server(s). This combination (SLES10
SP1, Itanium, 
RAC cluster) is more likely a big troublemaker because it is
very uncommon.

Here are my installations, but they are all for Intel and
for SLES9 (I can't 
allow SLES10 for the database yet because of numerous
problems with it).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dimitrios Bougoulias" <D.Bougouliasiit.demokritos.gr>
To: <suse-oraclesuse.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:42 AM
Subject: [suse-oracle] ASMLIB for IA64???


> Hello,
>
>
>
>
>
> Does anybody know when ASMLib 2.0 will be available for
ia64.
>
>
>
> (We need to migrate two Itanium servers to SLES10 with
Oracle 10g R2 / 
> RAC -
> Standard Edition)
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
>
>
> Dimitri Bougoulias
>
> 


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I am just curious. I am running (set up 1 week ago for
developers) RAC cluster in development, on a couple of dell
670 workstation.
One of the systems have 2 GB only (other have 4) so I
configured very small SGA-s on it and balanced all so that
system don't go to the swap.

It appear that system with lower memory get into the kernel
error time to time, which cause CSS to reboot it:

Jul 26 00:04:52 baikal2/baikal2 kernel: oracle: page
allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
Jul 26 00:04:54 baikal2/baikal2 kernel: 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel: Call
Trace:<IRQ>
<ffffffff8016b9cf>{__alloc_pages+831}
<ffffffff8016bb4d>{__get_free_pages+237} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff8016f049>{cache_alloc_refill+649}
<ffffffff8016f4fe>{__kmalloc+94} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff802eac61>{alloc_skb+81}
<ffffffffa00d518f>{:e1000:e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+127}

Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffffa00d485f>{:e1000:e1000_clean_rx_irq+1743} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffffa00d3c68>{:e1000:e1000_clean+1016}
<ffffffff802ed414>{net_rx_action+132} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff80142d03>{__do_softirq+83}
<ffffffff80142d95>{do_softirq+53} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff80113dad>{do_IRQ+317}
<ffffffff80110ba7>{ret_from_intr+0} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:         <EOI>
<ffffffff80171caf>{refill_inactive_zone+383} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff80171bb3>{refill_inactive_zone+131}
<ffffffff80172ea5>{shrink_zone+229} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff80173816>{try_to_free_pages+278}
<ffffffff8016b8bf>{__alloc_pages+559} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff8016bb4d>{__get_free_pages+237}
<ffffffff801a3c6a>{__pollwait+74} 
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 logger: Oracle CSSD failure
134.
Jul 26 00:04:55 baikal2/baikal2 logger: Oracle CSSD failure
134.
Jul 26 00:04:56 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff802eb6c5>{datagram_poll+21}
<ffffffff802e51da>{sock_poll+26} 
Jul 26 00:04:56 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff801a4008>{sys_poll+584}
<ffffffff801a3c20>{__pollwait+0} 
Jul 26 00:04:56 baikal2/baikal2 kernel:       
<ffffffff801106b4>{system_call+124} 
Any idea, what it may be? Of course, RAC should not run 3
databases on 2 GB, but technically all SGA and PGA fit and I
have enough swap. I am not concerned about this particular
cluster, concern is that it may indicate overall
system/kernel bug.----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnevexigengroup.com>
To: "Dimitrios Bougoulias" <D.Bougouliasiit.demokritos.gr>; <suse-oraclesuse.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] ASMLIB for IA64???


> You DON'T NEED ASM library for ASM. Just use raw
devices and forget about 
> ASMLib. ASMLib is just a piece of junk, doing nothing
usefull.
> 
> You must:
> - create raw devices using /etc/init.d/raw service or
modified variation (I 
> ise rawnames service);
> - start dbca, ask to create ASM, and assign these (one
or more) raw disks to 
> asm.
> 
> When working with RAC, if root.sh can't initiate
OCRFile (which must be a 
> raw disk) or CSSFile, have a few tips:
> - sometimes it can't work with partitions,. sometimes
with the whole disk. 
> Looks as an oracle bug (10.2 only);
> - CSSFile must be owned by oracle, 'disk' group is not
enough. To change 
> ownership of the raw device, use
> 
> But I'd better advice against SLES10 , Itanium and RAC
together. Take SLES9 
> SP3 _or_ take AMD/Intel server(s). This combination
(SLES10 SP1, Itanium, 
> RAC cluster) is more likely a big troublemaker because
it is very uncommon.
> 
> Here are my installations, but they are all for Intel
and for SLES9 (I can't 
> allow SLES10 for the database yet because of numerous
problems with it).
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dimitrios Bougoulias"
<D.Bougouliasiit.demokritos.gr>
> To: <suse-oraclesuse.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:42 AM
> Subject: [suse-oracle] ASMLIB for IA64???
> 
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anybody know when ASMLib 2.0 will be available
for ia64.
>>
>>
>>
>> (We need to migrate two Itanium servers to SLES10
with Oracle 10g R2 / 
>> RAC -
>> Standard Edition)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>>
>>
>> Dimitri Bougoulias
>>
>> 
> 
> 
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