What is DB version? Are you upto date with SLES9 Service Packs i.e. SP3 + on-line updates

Is server swapping under heavy load? Please post brief output of vmstat, iostat and top under I/O load.

-Arun

>>> On 5/9/2007 at 11:58 AM, <AMeeks@(protected):

> We have Oracle databases and applications running on IBM servers -- SLES8
> on our apps server and SLES9 on our db servers.
>
> We have our development servers setup with RAID 5.
>
> We find that when I perform heavy I/O such as copying a database or
> applying patches or upgrades, the servers become unusable. TOP will show
> CPU idle of 35 - 50 % but a load average or 10 - 15. This happens on
> internal disks as well as disks on our EMC Clarion so we suspect it is more
> of a server or OS issue.
>
> I have been a dba for 12 years and have performed the same operations on HP
> and Sun Solaris. On Sun and HP, I would see the server become slow, but not
> unusable.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Angie
>





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