ARCH Process Killed – Fix Without Restart

Hi all,
What if your arch processes hangs or get killed? How to keep archive going without restart database?

Take a look…

Problem:

Current log# 2 seq# 1484 mem# 1: +DGFRA/dbprod01/onlinelog/group_2.380.898680659
ARC1: Detected ARCH process failure
ARC1: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES
ARC1: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES COMPLETE
Master archival failure: 28
ARCH: Archival stopped, error occurred. Will continue retrying
ORACLE Instance dbprod01_1 - Archival Error
ORA-00028: your session has been killed
LGWR: Detected ARCH process failure
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 1485 (LGWR switch)
Current log# 5 seq# 1485 mem# 0: +DGFRA/dbprod01/onlinelog/group_5.870.898689599
Fri Apr 26 10:51:36 2016
Master archival failure: 28
Fri Apr 26 10:52:00 2016

Solution:
Increase your arch processes number… 😉

ALTER SYSTEM SET log_archive_max_processes=8 SCOPE=BOTH;
Fri Apr 26 10:55:15 2016
ARC4 started with pid=59, OS id=76169
Fri Apr 26 10:55:15 2016
ARC5 started with pid=60, OS id=76171
Fri Apr 26 10:55:15 2016
ARC6 started with pid=61, OS id=76173
Fri Apr 26 10:55:15 2016
ARC7 started with pid=62, OS id=76175

Matheus.

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