Reduce high CPU usage by TFA

February 23, 2021 Leave a comment

Problem:

Cluster nodes experienced high CPU usage, after investigation one of the top CPU consumers on the server has been found to be a TFA process (2nd place):

 # Fri Feb 19 17:44:01 2021
AllCPU  OneCPU  PID     User    PR      NI      STime   RSS     Name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11.75%  94.02%  23895   root    20      0       17:43   87M     ora_m001_ORCL2
1.42%   11.39%  2468    root    20      0       Feb02   736M    /opt/oracle.ahf/jre/bin/java -server -Xms256m -Xmx512m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Ddisable.checkForUpdate=true -XX:HeapDumpPath=/u01/app/oracle.ahf/data/rac02/diag/tfa -XX:ParallelGCThreads=5 oracle.rat.tfa.TFAMain /opt/oracle.ahf/tfa

Workaround:

In newer version of TFA, you can set CPU resource limit. 

tfactl setresourcelimit 
 [-tool tool_name] 
 [-resource resource_type] 
 [-value value]

To limit TFA to a maximum of 50% of a single CPU, run the following:

# tfactl setresourcelimit -value 0.5

For more information, please check TFA official documentation.

If you don’t have newer version of TFA, you need to upgrade it first.

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OPATCHAUTO-72115: Please complete the previous apply session across all nodes to perform apply session

September 23, 2019 Leave a comment

Problem:

My opatchauto outofplace patching failed on GI home. I was able to cleanup cloned GI home and information about it in inventory.xml, but after running opatchauto again I was getting the following error:

[root@rac1 29708703]# $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatchauto apply -oh $ORACLE_HOME -outofplace
OPatchauto session is initiated at Sun Aug 18 20:40:43 2019
System initialization log file is /u01/app/18.3.0/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchautodb/systemconfig2019-08-18_08-40-46PM.log.
Session log file is /u01/app/18.3.0/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/opatchauto2019-08-18_08-42-20PM.log
The id for this session is Z1CP
OPATCHAUTO-72115: Out of place patching apply session cannot be performed.
OPATCHAUTO-72115: Previous apply session  is not completed on node rac1.
OPATCHAUTO-72115: Please complete the previous apply  session across all nodes to perform apply session.
OPatchAuto failed.

Solution:

Clear checkpoint files from the previous session :

[root@rac1 29708703]# cd /u01/app/18.3.0/grid/.opatchauto_storage/rac1
[root@rac1 rac1]# ls
oopsessioninfo.ser
[root@rac1 rac1]# rm -rf oopsessioninfo.ser

Rerun opatchauto apply again.

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Oracle Database 18c: why Oracle skipped 6 releases?

February 18, 2019 Leave a comment

“If you’re confused as to why Oracle skipped 6 releases, it may be simpler to regard Oracle Database 18c  as  Oracle Database 12c Release 2 12.2.0.2, where Oracle simply changed the naming to reflect the year in which the product is released.

Oracle Database 18c is the first version of the product to follow a yearly release pattern. “

https://blogs.oracle.com/database/oracle-database-18c-:-now-available-on-the-oracle-cloud-and-oracle-engineered-systems

Oracle DB Support Roadmap 2019

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What is a Flex ASM and how to check if it is enabled?

January 16, 2019 Leave a comment

In versions prior to 12c, the ASM instance needed to be run on each of the nodes of the cluster. In case ASM was not able to start, the database instance located on the same node was not able to come up also. There were a hard dependency between database and ASM instances.

With Oracle Flex ASM, databases are able to connect remote ASM using network connection(ASM network). In case of ASM instance fails, the database instance will reconnect to another ASM instance on another node. This feature is called Oracle Flex ASM.

Check if you are using such a great feature using the following command:

[grid@rac1 ~]$ asmcmd
ASMCMD> showclustermode
ASM cluster : Flex mode enabled

 

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