RHEL 4 - Memory Problem
qua nong
quanong_os at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 20 21:13:59 UTC 2007
Troy,
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Our industry are making Trains and develops software for the railway network.
I'd really like to have a go at setting up LVS and install Oracle RAC on it.
But I've heard that the ocfs2 filesystem is much better for Oracle RAC then GFS.
Recently I went to the RH436 - HA cluster and GFS course but it did not include the LVS. I donnot why.
Thanks again.
QN
----- Original Message ----
From: Troy Knabe <knabe at 4j.lane.edu>
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Cc: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 4:12:34 PM
Subject: Re: RHEL 4 - Memory Problem
I use Red Hat AS 4 and Oracle Cluster Services and we installed everything on a NetApp Filer and mounted even the CRS directory via NFS.
I have 2 bonded 1Gig NICs to a cluster of 2 Filer Heads. We actually lost the primary filer head one day and Oracle never missed a beat.
I came from a SAN environment and was very skeptical of NAS. We have had a couple of Super Secret Oracle issues that we have run into, that we had to open a support case for, but stability and performance have been great.
Do you mind if I ask what manufacturer you are running? I am running Sun x4100's.
-Troy
----- Original Message -----
From: qua nong <quanong_os at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:50 pm
Subject: Re: RHEL 4 - Memory Problem
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Hi,
>
> Below is the output of free
>
> # free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 16360260
> 16197904 162356 0 256496 14974144
> -/+ buffers/cache: 967264 15392996
> Swap: 33551744
> 186960 33364784
>
> May I also ask you that as you mentioned that you run Oracle RAC
> on linux box. Do you use RHEL3 cluster or 4, GFS or OCFS ?
>
> Qua
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Troy Knabe <knabe at 4j.lane.edu>
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:20:02 PM
> Subject: Re: RHEL 4 - Memory Problem
>
> Try running the command "free" I think, although I don't
> know why and would love for someone on this list to answer this
> question that this is a better actual representation of the free
> memory on the box.
>
> I am running the same config as you, only 3 boxes with 8 gig of
> RAM each and Oracle RAC.
>
> My hunch is that top and vmstat are showing the actual memory
> locations that are empty, where a "free" command shows the
> memory addresses that while may have something in them, are able
> to be recycled and used.
>
> Can someone verify that I am right or way off base?
>
> Thanks
> -Troy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: qua nong <quanong_os at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:02 pm
> Subject: RHEL 4 - Memory Problem
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > We have a AMD with RHEL4 64 installed and the Oracle 10g
> > installed as well.
> > It has the latest kernel update 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp but
> the
> > memory is always being used by some unexplained processes.
> >
> > There are 4 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 33GB swap but memory used = 16148872k
> >
> > Even when oracle is shutdown, a memory use is
> still
> > nearly 16GB. CPU is 99.4 % in idle, and I/O is too quiet. This
> > is quite difficult to explain.
> >
> > Could anyone have any idea ?
> >
> > Here is the display of the top command
> >
> > top - 14:57:33 up 30 days, 22:29, 3 users, load
> > average: 0.22, 0.10, 0.02
> > Tasks: 121 total, 1 running, 120
> > sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.4%
> > id, 0.6% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> > Mem: 16360260k total, 16198280k used,
> 161980k
> > free, 256496k buffers
> > Swap: 33551744k total, 186960k used, 33364784k
> free,
> > 14973940k cached
> >
> > vmstat 2
> > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --
> system-
> > - ----cpu----
> > r b swpd free
> > buff cache si
> so
> > bi bo in cs us
> > sy id wa
> > 0 0 186960 161420 256496
> 14973940
> > 0 0 1
> > 112 3 1
> 0
> > 0 99 1
> > 0 0 186960 162284 256496
> 14973940
> > 0 0 0
> 170
> > 1021 2162 0 0 100 0
> > 0 0 186960 162276 256496
> 14973940
> > 0 0
> > 0 44 1009 2149 0 0
> 100 0
> > 0 0 186960 162284 256496
> 14973940
> > 0 0
> > 0 42 1008 2244 0 0
> 99 0
> > 0 0 186960 162292 256496
> 14973940
> > 0 0
> > 0 48 1011 2164 0 0
> 99 0
> > 0 0 186960 162292 256496
> 14973940
> > 0 0
> > 0 56 1006 2118 0 0
> 100 0
> > 0 0 186960 162292 256496
> 14973940
> > 0 0
> > 0 66 1011 2154 0 0
> 98 2
> >
> >
> >
> > cat /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal: 16360260 kB
> > MemFree: 162740 kB
> > Buffers: 256496 kB
> > Cached: 14973940 kB
> > SwapCached: 9724 kB
> > Active: 2709340 kB
> > Inactive: 12799980 kB
> >
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> >
> HighFree: 0 kB
> > LowTotal: 16360260 kB
> > LowFree: 162740 kB
> > SwapTotal: 33551744 kB
> > SwapFree: 33364784 kB
> >
> Dirty: 332 kB
> > Writeback: 140 kB
> > Mapped: 1147256 kB
> >
> Slab: 608056 kB
> > CommitLimit: 41731872 kB
> > Committed_AS: 7853044 kB
> > PageTables: 39080 kB
> > VmallocTotal: 536870911 kB
> > VmallocUsed: 16760 kB
> > VmallocChunk: 536854071 kB
> > HugePages_Total: 0
> > HugePages_Free: 0
> > Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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