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font-family:Arial'>Greetings,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Having
read about the previous OSFS hangs, I think this one that we are seeing is
different, but I’m not sure if this is caused by OCFS or the Linux OS.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> We
are running OCFS Version 1.09 with </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Linux</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>AS</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 3.0/9i RAC.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We have a 2 node Intel Cluster (Node
1 and Node 2). This morning the DBA tried to do an “ls” command on
/u06/oradata/database and his process hung. I tried to kill his “ls”
process and it is unkillable. On Node 2, the “ls” on
/u06/oradata/database worked fine. All of the other file systems (on both
nodes) are fine.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Also, what we can’t get rid of
is this process:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>oracle 23593 1 95 </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>10:00</span></font><font
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? </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>04:45:11</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> oracleXYZ2
(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> and
it’s been accumulating CPU time since the hang. I’m unsure if this
process is a victim or the cause of the hangs.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> I
hope that I have provided enough information about the situation. If not, let
me know and I’ll get more.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Regards,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Randy</span></font></p>
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