Very high waitq for oracle archive-disks (tru64 5.1B PK3)

From: Andre.van.Benthem@achmea.nl
Date: Thu Dec 23 2004 - 06:58:10 EST


Dear managers,

We are facing quite a while problems with our oracle archive-filestore.
The wait Q's for those disks are very high compared to other disks with much higher WKB/s then the archive-filestore.
When I do an "alter system switch logfile" even then there is WAITQ for the disk.
We have 2 archive-disks which are both striped-mirrorsets on different controllers on our HSG80īs,
both disks have the the same problem.
Non-archive disk have most of the time a WAITQ between 0 and 0.3

We regulary get oracle messages in the alert-file. see below:

Wed Dec 22 00:02:04 2004
ARC6: Beginning to archive log# 2 seq# 1208880
ARC6: Failed to archive log# 2 seq# 1208880
ARC6: Beginning to archive log# 7 seq# 1208881
ARC6: Failed to archive log# 7 seq# 1208881
ARC6: Beginning to archive log# 5 seq# 1208882
ARC6: Failed to archive log# 5 seq# 1208882
ARC6: Beginning to archive log# 9 seq# 1208883
ARC6: Failed to archive log# 9 seq# 1208883
Wed Dec 22 00:02:12 2004
ARC0: Completed archiving log# 2 seq# 1208880

and sometimes we get the message below , in this case the database stands still. (Filesystem is NOT full)

Wed Dec 15 07:34:24 2004
ORACLE Instance pvfpbp - Can not allocate log, archival required
Wed Dec 15 07:34:24 2004
ARCH: Connecting to console port...
Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 1201212
All online logs needed archiving
Wed Dec 15 07:34:24 2004
ARC9: Beginning to archive log# 8 seq# 1201202
Wed Dec 15 07:34:24 2004
  Current log# 5 seq# 1201211 mem# 0: /u019/oracle/log/pvfpbp/redo05a.log
Wed Dec 15 07:34:24 2004

Below output from collect:

# DISK Statistics
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 1 45 707 5.76 284.62 0.26 12.64 1.33
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 0 0 1 1.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 1 86 1415 5.49 358.53 0.48 30.46 2.27
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 0 27 442 5.47 117.70 0.15 3.05 0.75
#DSK NAME B/T/L R/S RKB/S W/S WKB/S AVS AVW ACTQ WTQ %BSY
   7 dsk8 1/10/3 0 9 7 118 3.87 31.69 0.03 0.16 0.35

Did anyone has seen this problem and eventualy knows the cause an maybe the solution ?

Regards A. van Benthem

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