Tag: hanganalyze

Hi!
See the first part of this post here: HANGANALIZE Part 1.

This post is just complement with a little kludge I liked…
First, let’s remmember that the hanganalyze is used when you are if some hanging in your environment, of course.

But what if you are having difficult to access the database, even with ‘/ as sysdba’?

You can create a ‘preliminary connection’ without create a session, like this:

sqlplus -prelim / as sysdba

This ‘feature’ is available since Oracle 10g, and it basically skips a session creation part (which could block) when logging on as SYSDBA.

More“HANGANALYZE Part 2”

Hi all!
I realized I have some posts about database hangs but have no posts about hanganalyze, system state or ashdump usage. So let’s fix it. 🙂
To organize the ideas I’m going to split the subject on three posts. This first will be about hanganalyse.

See the second part of this post here: HANGANALIZE Part 2.

Ok, so let me refer the most clear Oracle words I could found:
“Hanganalyze tries to work out who is waiting for who by building wait chains, and then depending on the level will request various processes to dump their errorstack.”

This is very similar to what we can do manually through v$wait_chains. But is quicker and ‘oficial’, so let’s use! 😀

But before I show how you can do it, it’s important to mention that Oracle does not recommend you to use ‘numeric events’ without a SR (MOS), according to Note: 75713.1.

So, how to do it? Basically 2 ways:

1) ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS 'immediate trace name HANGANALYZE level LL'; OR EVENT="60 trace name HANGANALYZE level 5"
2) ORADEBUG hanganalyze LL

More“HANGANALYZE Part 1”