Hi, I have an Oracle 8.1.7.4 64bit running in a Solaris 9 branded zone on-top of Solaris 10. When I put a tablespace in a hotbackup mode it takes long time - usually more than 4s for each tablespace. Looks like ora_ckpt process is consuming 100% of cpu (in usr) while a tablespace is being put in the hotbackup mode.
It looks like there might be an issue with semop() interposition in S9 branded zone. I can't easily test it now but IIRC when running Oracle in a global zone there was no such issue. More details below. First, lets check a PID of ora_ckpt # ps -ef | grep 20326 oracle 20326 1 0 15:37:26 ? 15:52 ora_ckpt_I321 Now lets put a TEMP tablespace in a backup mode while running a dtrace script as well: SQL> alter tablespace TEMP begin backup; Tablespace altered. Elapsed: 00:00:04.65 # dtrace -n sched:::on-cpu'/pid==20326 && tid==1/{self->t=timestamp;}' -n sched:::off-cpu'/self->t/{...@u[ustack()]=sum(timestamp-self->t);@c[ustack()]=count();self->t=0;}' -n tick-10s'{printa(@u);printa(@c)}' dtrace: description 'sched:::on-cpu' matched 1 probe dtrace: description 'sched:::off-cpu' matched 2 probes dtrace: description 'tick-10s' matched 1 probe ^C `_s9brand_systemcall+0x30 `s9_semsys+0x16c `s9_handler+0x84 oracle`sslssalck+0x514 libc.so.1`semop+0x18 oracle`sskgpwwait+0x13c oracle`ksliwat+0x44c oracle`kslwaitns+0x20 oracle`kskthbwt+0x174 oracle`kslwait+0x50 oracle`ksarcv+0x1bc oracle`ksbabs+0x344 oracle`ksbrdp+0x2ec oracle`opirip+0x31c oracle`opidrv+0x6a0 oracle`sou2o+0x10 oracle`main+0x128 oracle`_start+0x17c oracle`_start+0x18 3852868427 oracle`_s9brand_systemcall+0x30 oracle`s9_semsys+0x16c oracle`s9_handler+0x84 oracle`sslssalck+0x514 libc.so.1`semop+0x18 oracle`sskgpwwait+0x13c oracle`ksliwat+0x44c oracle`kslwaitns+0x20 oracle`kskthbwt+0x174 oracle`kslwait+0x50 oracle`ksarcv+0x1bc oracle`ksbabs+0x344 oracle`ksbrdp+0x2ec oracle`opirip+0x31c oracle`opidrv+0x6a0 oracle`sou2o+0x10 oracle`main+0x128 oracle`_start+0x17c oracle`_start+0x18 12 So the same ustack() consumed almost 4s of a CPU time out of 4.6s of a total time of the operation. Has anyone been hit by it? Also the 2nd stack looks strange (top 5 lines)... -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org