Monthly Archives: August 2016

Direct NFS: Failed to set socket buffer size.wtmax=[1048576] rtmax=[1048576], errno=-1 on Solaris

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Ronny Egner

This error occured on Solaris (SPARC) using Direct NFS (dNFS). The MOS Note is incomplete and only recommends to increase the send and receive buffers, but the solution is below:   /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 1056768 /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat … Continue reading →

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Exadata outage due to ASM disks missing

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Ronny Egner

On some older Exadatas it can be that Grid Disks belonging to a cell are not found anymore. And not even FORCEing the moutn helps: FAILGROUP HEADER_STATU COUNT(*) —————————— ———— ———- EXA01CEL02 MEMBER 34 EXA01CEL03 MEMBER 34 EXA01CEL04 MEMBER 34 … Continue reading →

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