raccheck 2.2 beta released

raccheck 2.2 beta released
v. 2.2.0 Beta

Support for Single Instance Configurations (i.e., no longer limited to RAC configurations)
High Availability (HA) Best Practices
New checks and bug fixes

This new version was prodiced with collaboration with ORACLE HA team in Support to add their Top 20 checks for common problems related to backup and recovery and Data Guard. These new checks augment the MAA Scorecard. These new checks can be obtained with the following syntax:

./raccheck -r – includes the standard health checks as well as HA checks.
./raccheck -c hacheck -o -v – abbreviates the report output to ONLY the HA related checks

raccheck can be downloaded from RACcheck – RAC Configuration Audit Tool (Doc ID 1268927.1)

CREDIT: Bob Caldwell

November 2, 2012

Posted In: Data Guard, Installs, RAC, RMAN, Scripts

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11gR2 install fails with “Hard Limit: maximum user processes” error

Just finished dealing with “Hard Limit: maximum user processes” error on Open Solaris 10 while installing 11gR2:

11gR2 install fails with

Oracle Metalink was useless — total waste of time — I hate that site now, it’s gone completely into the crapper.

SOLUTION (thanks to David D’Acquisto advice):

1) edit /etc/system as follows:

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=12025908428
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set max_nprocs=30000
set maxuprc=16384

2) setup project for oracle user (if it’s already setup then just ignore the duplicate error while running projadd command):

projadd -U oracle user.oracle
projmod -s -K "project.max-sem-ids=(priv,100,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "process.max-sem-nsems=(priv,256,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,12025908428,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-ids=(priv,100,deny)" user.oracle
projmod -s -K "process.max-file-descriptor=(priv,65536,deny)" user.oracle

3) bounce the box:

init 6

Here’s how to check for the setting:

## before above changes were applied
##
$ kstat|grep v_proc
        v_proc                          16362
$

$ kstat |grep v_maxup
        v_maxup                         16357
        v_maxupttl                      16357
$

## after changes/reboot
##

$ kstat|grep v_proc
        v_proc                          30000
$

$ kstat |grep v_maxup
        v_maxup                         16384
        v_maxupttl                      29995
$

NOTE: the setting above are based on 16gb of RAM if yours is less/more — adjust as per David’s formula.

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February 15, 2010

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