Sunday, April 19, 2009

Bug 7171446 - NUMA Issues from 10.2.0.4 Patchset

Here is a NUMA bug introduced in 10.2.0.4. If you are running HP-UX IA64 and your system starts locking up or you find a number of unexpected problems such as skewed CPU usage and ORA-600 errors. Here are some details you should review in note: 7171446.8 on MetaLink.

Unless the system has been specifically set up and tuned for NUMA at both OS and database level then disable Oracle NUMA optimizations by setting the following in the pfile / spfile / init.ora used to start the instances:

_enable_NUMA_optimization=FALSE
_db_block_numa=1

At some point, Oracle should release a patch for bug 7171446. Once it is released, we will install the patch and remove the hidden parameters from the parameters.

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