linux kernel buffer memory is zero
- by user64772
Hi all. There are one qestion that i can`t find in google.
I have many linux boxes mostly with SLES or openSUSE, diffrent versions and kernels. On some of them i faced with slow oracle transactions problem. It time to time problem and when i log in the box on that time i see that oracle blocked in kernel function sync_page
# while :; do ps axo stat,pid,cmd,wchan | egrep '^D|^R'; echo --; sleep 5; done
D 3483 hald-addon-storage: polling ide_do_drive_cmd
Ds 4635 ora_dbw0_orcl sync_page
Ds 4637 ora_lgwr_orcl sync_page
Ds 4639 ora_ckpt_orcl sync_page
D 11210 oracleorcl (LOCAL=NO) sync_page
D 12457 [smtpd] sync_page
R+ 12458 ps axo stat,pid,cmd,wchan -
--
Ds 4635 ora_dbw0_orcl sync_page
Ds 4637 ora_lgwr_orcl sync_page
Ds 4639 ora_ckpt_orcl sync_page
D 11210 oracleorcl (LOCAL=NO) sync_page
R+ 12501 ps axo stat,pid,cmd,wchan -
--
Ds 4635 ora_dbw0_orcl sync_page
Ds 4637 ora_lgwr_orcl sync_page
Ds 4639 ora_ckpt_orcl sync_page
D 11210 oracleorcl (LOCAL=NO) sync_page
R+ 12535 ps axo stat,pid,cmd,wchan -
--
Ds 4635 ora_dbw0_orcl sync_page
Ds 4637 ora_lgwr_orcl sync_page
Ds 4639 ora_ckpt_orcl sync_page
D 11210 oracleorcl (LOCAL=NO) sync_page
R+ 12570 ps axo stat,pid,cmd,wchan -
--
so i think that box is run out of memory for disk buffers but memry is fine
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4149084 3994552 154532 0 0 2424328
-/+ buffers/cache: 1570224 2578860
Swap: 3148700 750696 2398004
i think that this is the problem, buffer is zero and we must write directly to disk, but
why buffer is zero ? - i try to google it and find nothing - is anyone can help ?
