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warning heavy swapping observed on system in last 5 mins

Osama_MustafaSep 19 2012 — edited Feb 7 2013
Hi Guys

DB Version : 11.2.0.3
OS : AIX 6.1

I Have the following issue after upgrading to 11.2.0.3 , the alert log appear "warning heavy swapping observed on system in last 5 mins"

i follow MOS document : WARNING: Heavy Swapping Observed On System In Last 5 Mins.After upgrade to 11.2.0.3 [ID 1452790.1] and apply PSU patch 13923374 with nothing .

Database performance so slow , increase sga , pga with nothing , sharing_cursor set to force
SQL> select name, value/1024/1024 "MB" from v$pgastat where name like '%PGA%';

NAME                                                                     MB
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------
aggregate PGA target parameter                                         1168
aggregate PGA auto target                                        950.677734
total PGA inuse                                                  117.860352
total PGA allocated                                              206.938477
maximum PGA allocated                                            534.009766
total freeable PGA memory                                           74.1875
PGA memory freed back to OS                                      13868.8125
total PGA used for auto workareas                                6.14453125
maximum PGA used for auto workareas                              58.5351563
total PGA used for manual workareas                                       0
maximum PGA used for manual workareas                            .263671875
vmstat

System configuration: lcpu=16 mem=12287MB

kthr    memory              page              faults        cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
 r  b   avm   fre  re  pi  po  fr   sr  cy  in   sy  cs us sy id wa
 2  2 2471959 10054   0   0   0 3473 6548   0 632 10792 3275  9  2 88  1
SQL> show parameter cache;

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE                          
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ 
client_result_cache_lag              big integer 3000                           
client_result_cache_size             big integer 0                              
db_16k_cache_size                    big integer 0                              
db_2k_cache_size                     big integer 0                              
db_32k_cache_size                    big integer 0                              
db_4k_cache_size                     big integer 0                              
db_8k_cache_size                     big integer 0                              
db_cache_advice                      string      ON                             
db_cache_size                        big integer 0                              
db_flash_cache_file                  string                                     
db_flash_cache_size                  big integer 0                              

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE                          
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ 
db_keep_cache_size                   big integer 0                              
db_recycle_cache_size                big integer 0                              
object_cache_max_size_percent        integer     10                             
object_cache_optimal_size            integer     102400                         
result_cache_max_result              integer     5                              
result_cache_max_size                big integer 30M                            
result_cache_mode                    string      MANUAL                         
result_cache_remote_expiration       integer     0                              
session_cached_cursors               integer     600                            
SQL> show parameter db_writer;

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE                          
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ 
db_writer_processes                  integer     2                              
SQL> show parameter buffer;

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE                          
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ 
buffer_pool_keep                     string                                     
buffer_pool_recycle                  string                                     
db_block_buffers                     integer     0                              
log_buffer                           integer     31457280                       
use_indirect_data_buffers            boolean     FALSE
                   
SQL> spool off ;
alert log contain this error only .topas is 87% for oracle process
Just as note : servers are new with 16G RAM,All network connection fiber optics
after applying the patch , the my test taking 20min at max , now more than 1 hour

BR
osama
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