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AIX: memory leak/high CPU usage if tcp_fastlo is set to 1 (Doc ID 2141756.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 06, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)

Symptoms

On AIX, seeing memory leak, high oraagent CPU consumption on the node where GIMR is running: 

Fri May 6 22:18:32 CEST 2016>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD
240001 A oracle 7602224 1 0 60 20 1e10f61590 173928 * 22:15:34 - 0:00 <GRID_HOME>/bin/oraagent.bin=========>oraagent

Threads:
USER PID PPID TID S CP PRI SC WCHAN F TT BND COMMAND P
oracle 7602224 1 - A 0 60 19 * 240001 - -<GRID_HOME>/bin/oraagent.bin 76022
- - - 11862105 S 0 60 1 - 418400 - - -
- - - 28311787 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a1001b040 8410400 - - -
- - - 30539915 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a1001d240 8410400 - - -
- - - 30801949 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a1001d640 8410400 - - -
- - - 30867457 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a1001d740 8410400 - - -
- - - 30998721 S 0 60 1 - 418400 - - -
- - - 32636977 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a1001f240 8410400 - - -
- - - 32833745 S 0 60 1 - 418400 - - -
- - - 35192939 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a10021940 8410400 - - -
- - - 35651725 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a10022040 8410400 - - -
- - - 35979421 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a10022540 8410400 - - -
- - - 36896911 S 0 60 1 - 418400 - - -
- - - 38469767 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a10024b40 8410400 - - -
- - - 39715045 Z 0 60 1 - c00001 - - -
- - - 40304871 Z 0 60 1 - c00001 - - -
- - - 40370409 S 0 60 1 - 418400 - - -
- - - 41091183 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a10027340 8410400 - - -
- - - 47120591 S 0 60 1 f1000f0a1002cf40 8410400 - - -
- - - 58720257 S 0 60 1 - 418400 - - -

 

The process <GRID_HOME>/bin/oraagent.bin is using 50 - 60% of the CPU's all the time on the node where GIMR is running, the same process on the second node uses below 0.1% CPU.

 

Cause

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