<div>Gaetano,</div> <div> </div> <div> I am using RMAN with the default configuration here in RH 4.0, but I had to change the I/O scheduler to the "deadline" I/O scheduler to prevent these reboots, and increased the o2cb timeouts too. We had some just after implementing but it seems very stable now. We increased the timeout here to 130, to account for SAN switch failures, powerpath and such.</div> <div> </div> <div> I am still on 1.2.1 on the production nodes and it panics the machine, which do is annoying even when the servers are on the same building, but there are always messages on /var/log/messages of the killed node showing what happened. Funny that 1.2.5 no longer shows these.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Luis</div> <div><BR><B><I>Gaetano Giunta <giunta.gaetano@sea-aeroportimilano.it></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px;
MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1593" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>v\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } o\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } w\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } .shape { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } </STYLE> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Cambria Math; } @font-face { font-family: Calibri; } @font-face { font-family: Tahoma; } @page Section1 {size: 612.0pt 792.0pt; margin: 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } A:visited {
COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } P { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-style-priority: 99; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto } SPAN.EmailStyle18 { COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-style-type: personal-reply } .MsoChpDefault { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-style-type: export-only } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Well, I'm not 100% sure I solved the problem in a definitve way, but here's the complete story:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>1 - install, if you can, the latest
release of ocfs2 + tools. The fact that a node reboots instead of panicking (and resting in peace until manual intervention) is a real life saver if you do not have immediate access to the server farm. Plus timeouts are configurable.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2 - when a cluster node is rebooted by the ocfs daemon, a telltale message is present on the console of the node. Messages from the ocfs daemon will also be present in /var/log/messages on the other nodes, but looking at those it is hard to understand if the dying node was shutdown by ocfs or by other causes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You can either sit in front of the screen or
start the netdump service on the rebooting node and the netdump-server service on a spare machine (another node on the cluster is fine. For best results use a different nic interconnect from the one used by ocfs.) If you are using red-hat the man pages for both services are quite straightforward</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>3 - in our case, the log we netdumped said:</FONT></SPAN></DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><PRE>(6,0):o2hb_write_timeout:269 ERROR: Heartbeat write timeout to device emcpowere2 after 12000 milliseconds</PRE><PRE>Heartbeat thread (6) printing last 24 blocking operations (cur = 7):</PRE><PRE>Heartbeat thread stuck at waiting for read completion, stuffing current time into that blocker (index 7)</PRE><PRE>Index 8: took 0 ms to do submit_bio for read</PRE><PRE>[ ... ]</PRE><PRE>Index 7:
took 9998 ms to do waiting for read completion</PRE><PRE>*** ocfs2 is very sorry to be fencing this system by restarting ***</PRE> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>4 - thus we determined ocfs2 was indeed at fault. Operations on other files where ok, but using rman to create a single 1,3 GB file on the ocfs disk was somehow triggering an heartbeat timeout.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>5 - we modified the configuration of our rman scripts to try to keep the size of the files created smaller. We tested again, and there was no reboot. I am not sure you can achieve the same result for failovers though - the general idea is to keep io in smaller chunks (or slow it down somehow?)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>6- As Sunil recommended (sorry, I think this was off list), we also raised the ocfs timeout value for O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD. Precise instructions for that can be found here: <A href="http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html#TIMEOUT">http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html#TIMEOUT</A>. We decided to go with a value of 31. We did not raise timeouts for the network keepalives (yet), since we are not using bonded nics for the ocfs2 interconnect. We might do that in the future if we find out that traffic on that network is extremely high / the network unstable, though...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hope it
helps</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Gaetano</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312070809-11052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Mattias Segerdahl [mailto:mattias.segerdahl@mandator.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 11, 2007 10:00 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Gaetano Giunta<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Hi,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">We’re having the exact same problem, if we do a failover between two filers/san’s, the server reboots.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">So far I haven’t found a solution to the problem, would you mind trying to explain how you solved the problem, step by step?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR:
#1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Mattias Segerdahl<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <div class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Gaetano Giunta<BR><B>Sent:</B> den 11 maj 2007 09:47<BR><B>To:</B> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div></DIV></DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></div> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Thanks, but I had alreday checked out all logs I could find (oracle and crs alerts, /var/log stuff) and there was no clear indication in there.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The trick is the ocfs was sending the
alert message to the console only (I wonder why it does not also leva traces into syslog, my best guess is it tries to shutdown as fast as it can, and sending a message to console is faster than sending it to syslog - but I'm in no way a linux guru...).</SPAN><o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">By using the netdump tool suggested by Sunil I managed to see the console messages of the dying node (without having to phisycally be in the server farm, which is 40 km away from my ususal workplace), and diagnosed the ocfs2 heartbeat as "the killer".</SPAN><o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Bye</SPAN><o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Gaetano</SPAN><o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN-LEFT: 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Luis Freitas [mailto:lfreitas34@yahoo.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:17 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Gaetano Giunta<BR><B>Cc:</B> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2</SPAN><o:p></o:p></div> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal>Gaetano,<o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal> If o2cb or CRS is killing the
machine, it usually shows on /var/log/messages with lines explaining what happened. Take a look on the /var/log/messages just before the last "syslogd x.x.x: restart".<o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal>Luis<o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><BR><BR><BR>Gaetano Giunta wrote:<BR>> Hello.<BR>><BR>> On a 2 node RAC 10.2.0.3 setup, on RH ES 4.4 x86_64, with ocfs 1.2.5-1, we are experiencing some troubles with RMAN: when the archive log destination is on an ASM partition, and the backup detsination is on ocfs2, running<BR>><BR>> backup archivelog all format '/home/SANstorage/oracle/backup/rman/dump_log/FULL_20070509_154916/arc_%d_%u' delete input;<BR>><BR>> consistently causes a reboot.<BR>><BR>> The rman catalog is clean, and has been crosschecked in every way.<BR>><BR>> We tried on both
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