Oracle® TimesTen In-Memory Database

Troubleshooting Guide

11g Release 2 (11.2.2)

E21636-11

October 2014

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Troubleshooting Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2.2)

E21636-11

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Preface

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database (TimesTen) is a relational database that is memory-optimized for fast response and throughput. The database resides entirely in memory at runtime and is persisted to disk storage for the ability to recover and restart. Replication features allow high availability. TimesTen supports standard application interfaces JDBC, ODBC, and ODP.NET, in addition to Oracle interfaces, PL/SQL, OCI, and Pro*C/C++. TimesTen is available separately or as a cache for Oracle Database.

Audience

This guide describes how to troubleshoot some of the problems users encounter when using the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database.

To work with this guide, you should understand how database systems work and have some knowledge of SQL (Structured Query Language).

Related documents

TimesTen documentation is available on the product distribution media and on the Oracle Technology Network:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/timesten/documentation/index.html

Oracle Database documentation is also available on the Oracle Technology network. This may be especially useful for Oracle Database features that TimesTen supports but does not attempt to fully document.

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage/

Conventions

TimesTen supports multiple platforms. Unless otherwise indicated, the information in this guide applies to all supported platforms. The term Windows refers to all supported Windows platforms and the term UNIX applies to all supported UNIX platforms and also to Linux. Refer to the "Platforms" section in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release Notes for specific platform versions supported by TimesTen.

Note:

In TimesTen documentation, the terms "data store" and "database" are equivalent. Both terms refer to the TimesTen database.

This document uses the following text conventions:

Convention
Meaning

boldface
Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.

italic
Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.

monospace
Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

italic monospace
Italic monospace type indicates a variable in a code example that you must replace. For example:

Driver=install_dir/lib/libtten.sl

Replace install_dir with the path of your TimesTen installation directory.

[ ]
Square brackets indicate that an item in a command line is optional.

{ }
Curly braces indicated that you must choose one of the items separated by a vertical bar ( | ) in a command line.

|

A vertical bar (or pipe) separates alternative arguments.

. . .
An ellipsis (. . .) after an argument indicates that you may use more than one argument on a single command line.

%

The percent sign indicates the UNIX shell prompt.

#

The number (or pound) sign indicates the UNIX root prompt.

TimesTen documentation uses these variables to identify path, file and user names:

Convention | Meaning
install_dir | The path that represents the directory where the current release of TimesTen is installed.
TTinstance | The instance name for your specific installation of TimesTen. Each installation of TimesTen must be identified at install time with a unique alphanumeric instance name. This name appears in the install path.
bits or bb | Two digits, either 32 or 64, that represent either the 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.
release or rr | The first three parts in a release number, with or without dots. The first three parts of a release number represent a major TimesTen release. For example, 1122 or 11.2.2 represents TimesTen 11g Release 2 (11.2.2).
jdk_version | Two digits that represent the version number of the major JDK release. Specifically, 14 represent JDK 1.4; 5 represents JDK 5.
timesten | A sample name for the TimesTen instance administrator. You can use any legal user name as the TimesTen administrator. On Windows, the TimesTen instance administrator must be a member of the Administrators group. Each TimesTen instance can have a unique instance administrator name.
DSN | The data source name.

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What's New

This section summarizes the new features and functionality of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 11.2.2 that are documented in this guide, providing links into the guide for more information.

New features in release 11.2.2.7.0

There is a new user error log message designation RECOVERY, for messages that report on TimesTen automatic recovery status. This is not a category that you can control through the ttDaemonLog utility; the messages cannot be disabled.

New features in release 11.2.2.5.0

If you are having trouble with user-defined parallel replication, see "Problems with parallel replication".

New features in release 11.2.2.1.0

If you try to change the state of a replication receiver when replication has been configured to use a secondary IP address, a misconfiguration of the /etc/hosts file may cause ttRepAdmin to print an error. See "Problems when changing the state of a replication receiver" for more information.

If you provide an incorrect host name for a subscriber or have made an error entering the subscriber database name or host name in the replication scheme, you may see an error. See "Wrong database or host name" for more information.

New features in release 11.2.2.0.0

Additional information was added about possible causes for a loss in AWT performance. For more details, see "AWT performance monitoring".

The error log messages for the cache agent daemon were modified as follows:

The TimesTen ORA component was often misunderstood to be the Oracle Database standard for Oracle Database messages. Now, the TimesTen ORA component is renamed to CACHE, and messages from the cache agent daemon have the designation CAC.

Previously, the TimesTen error message was printed, but the message number was not identified. Now, the message number is included in all messages, so that the user can reference the error message guide for further details.

For an example of these changes, see "Understanding messages about autorefresh in the support log".

1 Tools for Troubleshooting TimesTen

The following sections in this chapter describe how to use the TimesTen utilities and other tools that are used to diagnose problems with the TimesTen database:

Using the ttCapture utility

Using the ttIsql utility

Using the ttStatus utility

Using the logs generated by the TimesTen daemon

Using the ttTraceMon utility

Using the ttXactAdmin utility

Using ODBC tracing

Using SNMP traps to detect events

Monitoring the TimesTen system tables

Using the query optimizer

Using the ttCapture utility

The ttCapture utility captures information about the configuration and state of your TimesTen system into a file that provides TimesTen technical support with a snapshot of your system at the time the ttCapture utility is running. The ttCapture utility generates a file named ttcapture.date.time.log. By default, the file is written to the directory from which you invoke the ttCapture utility. Use the ttCapture -dest option to direct the output file to be written to another directory.

If you run ttCapture again, it writes the information to a new file.

On Windows platforms, running ttCapture also produces an XML file named ttcapture.date.time.nfo that contains output from the msinfo32 utility.

When you experience a problem with a TimesTen database, run ttCapture with the DSN option for the database as soon as possible, either when you are encountering the problem or immediately afterward.

Note:

Always double-quote directory and file names in case there are spaces in the names.

When you contact TimesTen technical support, upload the ttcapture.date.number.log file to the Service Request. Windows users should also upload the ttcapture.date.time.nfo file.

See "ttCapture" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference for information about additional options.

Using the ttIsql utility

The ttIsql utility enables you to interactively execute SQL statements and report status information on your TimesTen database.

All TimesTen SQL operations can be executed from a ttIsql Command> prompt.

Example 1-1 Using the ttIsql utility

To start the ttIsql utility for the demo database, enter:

% ttIsql demo

You should see output similar to the following:

Copyright (c) 1996, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Type ? or "help" for help, type "exit" to quit ttIsql.

connect "DSN=demo";
Connection successful: DSN=demo;UID=testuser;DataStore=/scratch/testuser/demo;
DatabaseCharacterSet=AL32UTF8;ConnectionCharacterSet=AL32UTF8;PermSize=128;
TypeMode=0;
(Default setting AutoCommit=1)

You can then execute SQL statements or ttIsql commands at the Command> prompt. You can also call TimesTen built-in procedures. One useful procedure is ttConfiguration. When you execute ttConfiguration, TimesTen displays the values of the connection attributes for your current database connection. For more information, see "ttConfiguration" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

"Using the ttIsql Utility" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide describes how to use the most common ttIsql commands. The following ttIsql commands are commonly used when troubleshooting:

monitor formats the contents of the SYS.MONITOR table.

See "Displaying database structure information" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

dssize prints database size information.

See "Displaying database structure information" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

showplan prints the optimizer execution plans for selects, updates, and deletes in this transaction.

See "Viewing and changing query optimizer plans" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

timing prints query timing.

See "Timing ODBC function calls" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

optprofile prints the current optimizer flag settings and join order.

See "Viewing and changing query optimizer plans" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

For the full list of ttIsql features, see the lists of options and commands under the description of the ttIsql utility in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Using the ttStatus utility

Use the ttStatus utility to check the status of the TimesTen daemon and the state of all TimesTen connections.

Example 1-2 ttStatus shows TimesTen daemon is not running

In this example, the output from ttStatus indicates that no TimesTen daemon is running. If the daemon has stopped unexpectedly, see "No response from TimesTen daemon or subdaemon" for troubleshooting information.

On Windows:

C:\>ttStatus
ttStatus: Could not connect to the TimesTen service.
If the TimesTen service is not running, please start it by running
"ttDaemonAdmin -start".

On UNIX platforms:

$ ttStatus
ttStatus: Could not connect to the TimesTen daemon.
If the TimesTen daemon is not running, please start it
by running "ttDaemonAdmin -start".

Example 1-3 ttStatus shows TimesTen daemon is running

In this example, the output from ttStatus indicates that the TimesTen daemon is running. There is one database named demo.

The first line indicates that the TimesTen daemon is running as process 4579 on port 4738 for the TimesTen instance myinstance. The second line indicates the TimesTen Server is running as process 4588 on port 4740.

There are currently 12 connections to the database: one user and 11 subdaemon connections.

The restart policies for the cache agent and the replication agent in the database are set to manual.

$ ttStatus
TimesTen status report as of Wed May  1 16:37:51 2013

Daemon pid 4579 port 4738 instance myinstance
TimesTen server pid 4588 started on port 4740
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data store /scratch/testuser/demo
There are 12 connections to the data store
Shared Memory KEY 0x02010008 ID 7798789
PL/SQL Memory KEY 0x03010008 ID 7831558 Address 0x7fa0000000
Type            PID     Context             Connection Name              ConnID
Process         4631    0x0000000009b3e800  demo                              1
Subdaemon       4584    0x0000000000616460  Manager                         142
Subdaemon       4584    0x000000000066d210  Rollback                        141
Subdaemon       4584    0x000000000074ea00  Flusher                         140
Subdaemon       4584    0x00000000007a3c90  Monitor                         139
Subdaemon       4584    0x00000000007f8790  Deadlock Detector               138
Subdaemon       4584    0x000000000084f2f0  Aging                           136
Subdaemon       4584    0x0000000000863db0  Log Marker                      135
Subdaemon       4584    0x00000000008fcf70  IndexGC                         132
Subdaemon       4584    0x00002aaabcb008d0  Checkpoint                      137
Subdaemon       4584    0x00002aaabcb555f0  HistGC                          133
Subdaemon       4584    0x00002aaabcc008d0  AsyncMV                         134
Replication policy  : Manual
Cache Agent policy  : Manual
PL/SQL enabled.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Accessible by group g900
End of report

Example 1-4 ttStatus shows connection to old instance

This example shows a connection to an old instance of a database. This can occur when a database is invalidated, but some users have not disconnected from the invalidated copy of the database still in memory. After all users disconnect, the memory is automatically freed.

C:\>ttStatus

TimesTen status report as of Mon Aug  6 22:03:04 2012
Daemon pid 5088 port 17000 instance MYINSTANCE
TimesTen server pid 4344 started on port 17002
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Data store c:\temp\sample
There are no connections to the data store
Obsolete or not yet active connection(s):
Process  4696 context 0xd08800 name sample connid 1, obsolete connection, shmKey
'Global\DBI45b94c6f.3.SHM.4'
Replication policy : Manual
Cache agent policy : Manual
-----------------------------------------------------------------
End of report

Using the logs generated by the TimesTen daemon

The TimesTen daemon and its subdaemons and agents generate error, warning, and informational messages. These messages may be useful for TimesTen system administration and for debugging applications.

By default, informational messages are stored in:

A user error log that contains information you may need to be aware of, including actions you may need to take.

A support log containing everything in the user error log plus information for use by TimesTen Customer Support.

See "Modifying informational messages" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide for information about configuring the logs, including their location and size.

All message categories are enabled by default, but you can also disable or explicitly enable the following categories of user error log messages for all databases or specified databases through options of the ttDaemonLog utility:

ALL (default): For all messages

CACHE: For messages from the cache agent, designated by CAC

DAEMON: For messages from the main daemon and subdaemons

DAEMONDBG: For additional information from the main daemon and subdaemons.

REPLICATION: For messages from the replication agent, designated by REP

SERVER: For messages from TimesTen Server.

See "ttDaemonLog" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference for information about ttDaemonLog options.

Using the ttTraceMon utility

Use the ttTraceMon utility to log various trace information on a number of TimesTen components. Each TimesTen component can be traced at different levels of detail. You can list all of the traceable TimesTen components and their current tracing level by specifying ttTraceMon with the show subcommand. The full list of options for ttTraceMon is described in the "ttTraceMon" section in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

TimesTen tracing severely impacts application performance and consumes a great deal of disk space if trace output is directed to a file. In addition, when using AWT cache groups, you must restart the replication agent when trying to trace the ORACON component with ttTraceMon. Use the ttTraceMon utility only when diagnosing problems. When you are finished, reset tracing to the default values.

Example 1-5 Default trace levels for components

This example shows that the levels for most tracing components are set to level 0 (off) for the demo database. Both the ERR and DEADLOCK components are set to 1 for tracing by default. See "ERR tracing".

% ttTraceMon -e show demo
AGING        ... 0
API          ... 0
ASYNCMV      ... 0
AUTOREFRESH  ... 0
CG           ... 0
CGRID        ... 0
CGRIDC       ... 0
CKPT         ... 0
DEADLOCK     ... 1
EE           ... 0
ERR          ... 1
FLOW         ... 0
HEAP         ... 0
LATCH        ... 0
LOCK         ... 0
LOG          ... 0
LOGF         ... 0
OPT          ... 0
ORACON       ... 0
PLOAD        ... 0
PT           ... 0
REPL         ... 0
SM           ... 0
SQL          ... 0
TEST         ... 0
TRACE        ... 0
XA           ... 0
XACT         ... 0

The output for most TimesTen components is of interest only to TimesTen technical support. However, the output for the SQL, API, LOCK, ERR, AGING and AUTOREFRESH components may be useful to you when you are troubleshooting application problems.

The rest of this section includes the following topics:

Starting a trace and reading the trace buffer

SQL tracing

API tracing

DEADLOCK tracing

LOCK tracing

ERR tracing

AGING tracing

AUTOREFRESH tracing

Starting a trace and reading the trace buffer

Start a new trace by specifying ttTraceMon datastore. For example, to start a trace on the demo database, enter:

%  ttTraceMon demo
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace >

At the Trace prompt, specify the type of trace and its level. For example, to start tracing the SQL component at level 3, enter:

Trace > level sql 3

At this point you can run your application and the TimesTen trace information is written to a trace buffer. There are two ways to read the contents of the trace buffer:

From the Trace prompt, use the outfile command to direct the trace buffer data to a file. You must do this before running your application. When writing tracing information to a file, new trace information is concatenated to the existing contents of the file.

From the Trace prompt, use the dump command to display the trace buffer data to your screen.

Note:

The contents of the trace buffer accumulate with each new trace. To clear the trace buffer, use the flush command from a ttTraceMon prompt. Clear the buffered trace records for a specific component by specifying the component with the flush command.

Each record from the trace buffer has the following format:

timestamp   sequence   component   level   connection   processid
   operation

The fields in the records are defined as follows:

timestamp is the time at which the operation was executed.

sequence is the incremental number that identifies the trace line.

component is the TimesTen component being traced (such as SQL, API, LOCK, or ERR).

level is the trace level associated with the trace line. The range of trace levels differs by component, but for all components, the lowest trace level generates the least verbose output and highest trace level generates the most verbose output. For example, if you are tracing SQL at level 4, your output includes lines for levels 2 (prepare), 3 (execute), and 4 (open, close, fetch).

Note:

Trace levels for some components are not a continuous range of numbers. If you enter a number that does not correspond to a supported level for a component, tracing occurs at the highest supported level that is less than the number you entered. For example, if tracing levels for a component are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 and you enter 5, tracing events for level 1, 2, 3, and 4 are generated.

connection is the internal connection ID identifying the connection that generated the trace. This number corresponds to the ConnID shown in the ttStatus output. The connection ID is also used as the first element of the transaction ID.

processid is the operating system process ID for the process that generated the trace.

operation is the operation that occurred (such as SQL statement, API operation, or error message).

For example, a line from the trace buffer after a SQL trace at level 3 might look like this:

10:39:50.231 5281 SQL 2L 1C 3914P Preparing: select cust_num from customer

SQL tracing

Using ttTraceMon with the SQL component provides information about the SQL being prepared or executed by the TimesTen engine. Table 1-1 describes the levels for SQL tracing. Each level with a '+' sign includes the trace information described for that level, plus all levels preceding it.

Table 1-1 SQL tracing levels

Level
Output

2

SQL commands being prepared

3

+ SQL commands being executed

4

+ The effect of command pooling (prepares not being done because the prepared command already exists in the pool), the need for reprepares (for example, because an index was created), and commands being destroyed

At this level, ttTraceMon also shows when a query command is being opened, fetched, and closed.

5

+ Some internal data, such as command numbers, which are not generally useful for customer-level debugging

Note:

TimesTen recommends tracing SQL at level 3 or 4. SQL tracing does not show any information about the optimizer. Optimizer tracing is managed by a separate component (OPT) at level 4 only, and is not designed for customer use.

Example 1-6 SQL trace

In this example, execute ttTraceMon to do a SQL trace at level 4 on the demo database. Direct the output from the SQL trace to the SQLtrace.txt file. Then flush the buffer so that the trace does not report past SQL statements.

% ttTraceMon demo
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace > outfile SQLtrace.txt
Trace > level sql 4
Trace > flush

At this point, execute an application that includes the following SQL statement:

SELECT * FROM departments WHERE department_id = 10;

The trace information is written to the SQLtrace.txt file:

12:19:36.582     269 SQL      2L    3C  29570P Preparing: select * from
departments where department_id = 10
12:19:36.583     270 SQL      4L    3C  29570P sbSqlCmdCompile ()(E): (Found
already compiled version: refCount:01, bucket:28) cmdType:100, cmdNum:1000146.
12:19:36.583     271 SQL      4L    3C  29570P Opening: select * from departments
where department_id = 10;
12:19:36.583     272 SQL      4L    3C  29570P Fetching: select * from
departments where department_id = 10;
12:19:36.583     273 SQL      4L    3C  29570P Closing: select * from departments
where department_id = 10;
5 records dumped

When the application has completed, turn off SQL tracing and exit ttTraceMon.

Trace > level sql 0
Trace > {press ENTER – blank line}

API tracing

API traces are generated for database operations such as connecting to a database, changing a connection attribute, and committing a transaction. Table 1-2 describes the levels for API tracing. Each level with a '+' sign includes the trace information described for that level, plus all levels preceding it.

Table 1-2 API tracing levels

Level
Output

1

All rollback attempts by the subdaemon

This occurs if an application exits abruptly and the subdaemon recovers its connection.

2

+ Some low-on-space conditions

3

+ Create, connect, disconnect, checkpoint, backup, and compact operations for the database, as well as commit and rollback for each connection, and a few other operations

4

+ Most other operations conducted at TimesTen's internal API level

It does not show numerous operations on the storage manager and indexes that are done internally.

Note:

TimesTen recommends tracing at level 3.

Example 1-7 API trace

In this example, execute ttTraceMon to do a API trace at level 3 on the demo database. The output from the API trace is written to the APItrace.txt file. Before saving the API trace to the buffer, use the flush command to empty the buffer.

% ttTraceMon demo
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace> outfile APItrace.txt
Trace> level api 3
Trace > flush

At this point, execute the application. When the application has completed, turn off API tracing and exit ttTraceMon:

Trace > level api 0
Trace > {press ENTER – blank line}

The contents of APItrace.txt are similar to the sample output shown below. The output shows connection to the database, setting the connection character set, setting the isolation level, and committing a transaction.

11:54:26.796    1016 API      3L    2C   4848P sb_dbConnect()(X)
11:54:26.796    1017 API      3L    2C   4848P sb_dbConnCharsetSet()(E)
11:54:26.796    1018 API      3L    2C   4848P sb_dbConnSetIsoLevel()(E)
11:54:39.795    1019 API      3L    2C   4848P sb_dbConnSetIsoLevel()(E)
11:54:45.253    1020 API      3L    2C   4848P sb_xactCommitQ()(E)

DEADLOCK tracing

Use the DEADLOCK component to trace the occurrences of deadlocks for all applications.

Table 1-3 describes the DEADLOCK tracing levels. Each level with a '+' sign includes the trace information described for that level, plus all levels preceding it.

Table 1-3 DEADLOCK tracing levels

Level
Output

1

Deadlock cycles, logged as they are discovered

4, 6

+ Detailed information about how the deadlock is detected

Example 1-8 DEADLOCK trace

In this example, execute ttTraceMon to do a DEADLOCK trace at level 1, which is the default, on myDSN database.

Make two connections to myDSN. For the first connection, autocommit is on. Create table test and insert two rows. Then, set autocommit off and update the x1=1 row of table test. Because autocommit is off, the row is not inserted into the table until the commit. A lock is held until the transaction is committed or rolled back.

Command> create table test (x1 int unique, y1 int);
Command> insert into test values (1,1);
1 row inserted.
Command> insert into test values (2,2);
1 row inserted.
Command> autocommit 0;
Command> update test set y1=y1 where x1=1;
1 row updated.

For the second connection to myDSN, autocommit is set to off. Update the x1=2 row of table test.

Command> autocommit 0;
Command> update test set y1=y1 where x1=2;1 row updated.

Now, create a deadlock situation by executing update statements in both connections for rows that are locked by each other. The first connection executes an update against the row where x1=2.

Command> update test set y1=y1 where x1=2;
 6003: Lock request denied because of time-out
Details: Tran 2.1 (pid 32750) wants Un lock on rowid BMUFVUAAAAaAAAAETk,
table ME.TEST. But tran 3.2 (pid 32731) has it in Xn (request was Xn).
Holder SQL (update t1 set y1=y1 where x1=2)
The command failed.

The second connection executes an update against the row where x1=1.

Command> update test set y1=y1 where x1=1;
 6002: Lock request denied because of deadlock
Details: Tran 3.2 (pid 32731) wants Un lock on rowid BMUFVUAAAAaAAAADzk,
table ME.TEST. But tran 2.1 (pid 32750) has it in Xn (request was Xn).
Holder SQL (update t1 set y1=y1 where x1=1)
The command failed.

Use the flush command to empty the buffer.

% ttTraceMon myDSN
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace> flush

The trace buffer contains the following information showing all level 1 deadlock traces, as evidenced by '1L'.

Trace> dump
09:50:26.444      13 DEADLOCK 1L 2036C   3484P edge 1: xid 3.2, cid 3,
<Row BMUFVUAAAAaAAAADzk,0x8c5
74(574836)> 0 cnt=1 , Tbl 'T1', SQL='update t1 set y1=y1 where x1=1'
09:50:26.455      14 DEADLOCK 1L 2036C   3484P edge 0: xid 2.1, cid 2,
<Row BMUFVUAAAAaAAAAETk,0x8c5
74(574836)> 0 cnt=1 , Tbl 'T1', SQL='update t1 set y1=y1 where x1=2'
09:50:26.455      15 DEADLOCK 1L 2036C   3484P Victim: xcb:3.2,
SQL='update t1 set y1=y1 where x1=1'

If you want more information, set DEADLOCK tracing to a higher value. For example, the following sets DEADLOCK tracing to level 4 in ttTraceMon:

Trace > level deadlock 4

LOCK tracing

Use the LOCK component to trace the locking behavior of your application to detect trouble with deadlocks or lock waits. LOCK tracing generates a great deal of volume, so it is important to choose the appropriate level of tracing. Level 3, for example, begins to generate a large number of traces, as traces are written for fairly common events. Also, the traces themselves may be hard to read in places. If you cannot discern enough information, contact TimesTen technical support for more information.

Table 1-4 describes the LOCK tracing levels. Each level with a '+' sign includes the trace information described for that level, plus all levels preceding it.

Table 1-4 LOCK tracing levels

Level
Output

1

Deadlock cycles as they are discovered

2

+ Failures to grant locks for any reason

3

+ Lock waits (which may or may not be granted)

4

+ All lock grants/releases, some routine calls, and the mechanism of the deadlock detector

6

+ Each step in cycle traversal

Example 1-9 LOCK trace

In this example, execute ttTraceMon to do a LOCK trace at level 4 on myDSN database.

Make two connections to myDSN. For the first connection, set autocommit on. Create table test and insert three rows. Create a materialized view using table test.

Turn on tracing at level 4 and use the flush command to empty the buffer.

% ttTraceMon myDSN
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace> level lock 4
Trace> flush

For the second connection to myDSN, set autocommit off. Insert a row into table test. Because autocommit is off, the row is not inserted into the table until the commit. A lock is held until the transaction is committed or rolled back.

If the dump command is used to display the contents of the trace buffer, there are no records in the trace buffer:

Trace> dump
0 records dumped

From the first connection, try to drop the materialized view. The view cannot be dropped because there is a transaction that has not been committed or rolled back:

Command> drop materialized view v;
 6003: Lock request denied because of time-out
Details: Tran 3.71 (pid 24524) wants Sn lock on table TTUSER.TEST. But tran 1.42
(pid 24263) has it in IXn (request was IXn). Holder SQL (insert into test
values (100);)
The command failed.

The trace buffer contains the following information:

Trace> dump
20:09:04.789  174759 LOCK     3L    3C  24524P ENQ: xcb:00003 <Tbl 0x9b894,0x0>
0+Sn=>SL activity 0 Sn cnt=0; Holder xcb:00001 IXn
20:09:04.789  174760 LOCK     3L    3C  24524P Connection 3 scheduled for sleep
20:09:04.789  174761 LOCK     3L    3C  24524P Connection 3 sleeping
20:09:14.871  174762 LOCK     3L 2047C  24237P Connection 3 timed out
20:09:14.871  174763 LOCK     3L 2047C  24237P Connection 3 woken up
20:09:14.871  174764 LOCK     3L    3C  24524P Connection 3 awake
20:09:14.871  174765 LOCK     2L    3C  24524P ENQ: xcb:00003 <Tbl 0x9b894,0x0>
0+Sn=>TM activity 0 Sn cnt=1; Holder xcb:00001 IXn
7 records dumped

When finished with the trace, set LOCK tracing back to its default setting (0) and exit ttTraceMon:

Trace > level lock 0
Trace > {press ENTER – blank line}

ERR tracing

It may be useful to trace the ERR component. For example, an ERR trace at level 4 shows all of the error messages that are pushed in the TimesTen direct driver (not all errors are output to the user because they are handled internally). ERR tracing at level 1 is the default. No output is written for ERR tracing at level 2 and 3.

Table 1-5 describes ERR tracing levels. Each level with a '+' sign includes the trace information described for that level, plus all levels preceding it.

Table 1-5 ERR tracing levels

Level
Output

1 (set by default)

Fatal errors

4

+ All other error messages, many of which are handled internally by TimesTen

Example 1-10 ERR trace

In this example, execute ttTraceMon to do a ERR trace at level 4 on myDSN database.

First, create a table:

Command> create table test (id tt_integer);

Next, turn on tracing at level 4. Rather than direct the trace output to a file as in the previous examples, read it directly from the trace buffer. Before saving the ERR trace to the buffer, use the flush command to empty the buffer.

% ttTraceMon myDSN
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace> level err 4
Trace> flush

Now execute a SQL script with three errors in it. The errors are:

Creating a table with the same name as an existing table

Using incorrect syntax to insert values into the table

Inserting CHAR data into a TT_INTEGER column

Command> create table test (id tt_integer);
 2207: Table TEST already exists
The command failed.
Command> insert into test values 'abcd');
 1001: Syntax error in SQL statement before or at: "'abcd'", character position:
 25
insert into test values 'abcd');
                        ^^^^^^
The command failed.
Command> insert into test values ('abcd');
 2609: Incompatible types found in expression
The command failed.

The trace information is written to the trace buffer. Display it by using the dump command.

Trace> dump
19:28:40.465  174227 ERR      4L    1C  24263P TT2207: Table TEST already exists
 -- file "eeDDL.c", lineno 2930, procedure "sbEeCrDtblEval()"
19:28:51.399  174228 ERR      4L    1C  24263P TT1001: Syntax error in SQL
statement before or at: "'abcd'", character position: 25
insert into test values 'abcd');
                        ^^^^^^
 -- file "ptSqlY.y", lineno 6273, procedure "reserved_word_or_syntax_error"
19:29:00.725  174229 ERR      4L    1C  24263P TT2609: Incompatible types found
in expression -- file "saCanon.c", lineno 12618, procedure "sbPtAdjustType()"
3 records dumped

Set ERR tracing back to its default setting (1) and exit ttTraceMon:

Trace > level err 1
Trace > {press ENTER – blank line}

AGING tracing

Use the ttTraceMon utility to obtain the following information:

When aging starts and ends

How many rows have been deleted by the aging subdaemon

See "Implementing aging in your tables" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Table 1-6 describes the AGING tracing levels. Each level with a '+' sign includes the trace information described for that level, plus all levels preceding it.

Table 1-6 AGING tracing levels

Level
Description

1

Messages about the following events:

The aging subdaemon starts least recently used (LRU) or time-based aging.

The aging subdaemon repeats LRU aging because the LRU threshold was not met.

The aging subdaemon ends LRU or time-based aging.

2

+ Messages about the following events for each table:

Aging has started.

Aging has ended. The message includes the reason for ending and the total number of rows deleted.

3

+ Detailed report on how many rows were deleted during each aging cycle

4

+ Message every time the aging subdaemon wakes up

Example 1-11 AGING trace

In this example, execute ttTraceMon to do an AGING trace on myDSN database. The database contains TTUSER.MYTAB table, which has a time-based aging policy. The table is described as follows:

Command> describe TTUSER.MYTAB;

Table TTUSER.MYTAB:
  Columns:
   *ID                              TT_INTEGER NOT NULL
    TS                              TIMESTAMP (6) NOT NULL
  Aging use TS lifetime 3 minutes cycle 1 minute on

1 table found.
(primary key columns are indicated with *)

The table contains the following rows before the aging cycle begins:

Command> select * from TTUSER.MYTAB;
< 1, 2007-03-21 12:54:06.000000 >
< 3, 2010-03-17 08:00:00.000000 >
< 4, 2007-03-21 12:59:40.000000 >
< 5, 2007-03-21 13:00:10.000000 >
< 6, 2007-03-21 13:01:22.000000 >
5 rows found.

Execute ttTraceMon to do an AGING trace at level 3. Rather than direct the trace output to a file, read it directly from the trace buffer. Before saving the AGING trace to the buffer, use the flush command to empty the buffer.

% ttTraceMon myDSN
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace> level aging 3
Trace> flush

Display the trace information in the buffer by using the dump command.

Trace> dump
13:16:56.802    1247 AGING    1L 2045C  17373P Entering sbAgingTB(): curTime=78
13:16:56.803    1248 AGING    2L 2045C  17373P Entering sbAgingOneTable():
curTime=78, ltblid= 637140
13:16:56.804    1249 AGING    3L 2045C  17373P curTime=78, 4 deleted, 1
remaining, tbl = TTUSER.MYTAB
13:16:56.804    1250 AGING    2L 2045C  17373P Exiting sbAgingOneTable():
curTime=78, reason = 'no more rows', 4 deleted, 1 remaining, tbl = TTUSER.MYTAB
13:16:56.804    1251 AGING    1L 2045C  17373P Exiting sbAgingTB(): curTime=78
5 records dumped

Set AGING tracing back to its default setting (0) and exit ttTraceMon:

Trace > level aging 0
Trace > {press ENTER – blank line}

AUTOREFRESH tracing

Use the ttTraceMon utility to obtain information about the progress of autorefresh operations for cache groups with the AUTOREFRESH cache group attribute.

See "AUTOREFRESH cache group attribute" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide.

Table 1-7 describes AUTOREFRESH tracing levels. Each level with a '+' sign includes the trace information described for that level, plus all levels preceding it.

Table 1-7 AUTOREFRESH tracing levels

Level
Description

1

Autorefresh summary for the interval:

The time that autorefresh started

Number of autorefreshed rows for the interval

Number of autorefreshed root table rows for interval

Total number of autorefreshed rows since the cache agent started

Total number of autorefreshed rows in the root table since the cache agent started

The time that autorefresh ended

Note: Times and information about root table rows are reported for full autorefresh.

2

+ Autorefresh summary at the cache group level:

The time that autorefresh started for each cache group

Number of autorefreshed rows for each cache group

Number of autorefreshed root table rows for each cache group

Total number of autorefreshed rows for each cache group since the cache agent started

Total number of autorefreshed rows in the root table for each cache group since the cache agent started

The time that autorefresh ended for each cache group

Note: Times and information about root table rows are reported for full autorefresh.

3

+ Autorefresh summary at the table level:

The time that autorefresh started

Number of autorefreshed rows

Total number of autorefreshed rows since the cache agent started

The time that autorefresh ended

4

+ Autorefresh details for each table:

The time that autorefresh started for each table

The autorefresh query

Query execute time in milliseconds on the Oracle database

Query fetch time in milliseconds on the Oracle database

Query apply time in milliseconds on TimesTen

Query execute time in milliseconds on the Oracle database for child tables

Query fetch time in milliseconds on the Oracle database for child tables

Query apply time in milliseconds on TimesTen for child tables

The time that autorefresh ended for each table

The autorefresh bookmark (logseq) to which autorefresh was completed

Example 1-12 AUTOREFRESH trace

In this example, use the ttTraceMon utility to trace autorefresh operations on the cgDSN database. When the trace level is set to 1, the displayed information is similar to the output of the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet built-in procedure.

% tttracemon cgDSN
Trace monitor; empty line to exit
Trace> level autorefresh 1
Trace> dump

08:56:57.445 19398 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Autorefresh number 1415 started
for interval 60000
08:56:57.883 19419 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Duration For Interval 60000ms: 420
08:56:57.883 19420 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Num Rows For Interval 60000ms: 0
08:56:57.883 19421 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Num Root Rows For Interval
60000ms: 0
08:56:57.883 19422 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Cumulative Rows for Interval
60000ms: 11587
08:56:57.883 19423 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Cumulative Root Rows for Interval 60000ms: 1697
08:56:57.883 19424 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Autorefresh number 1415 ended for
interval 60000ms successfully.
7 records dumped

Tracing at level 4 produces additional information about autorefresh operation 1415. Information about autorefresh is provided for the testuser.readcache cache group, the testuser.readtab root table and the autorefresh interval.

Trace> level autorefresh 4
Trace> dump

08:56:57.445 19398 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Autorefresh number 1415 started for
interval 60000
08:56:57.471 19399 AUTOREFRESH 2L 5C 32246P Autorefresh started for cachegroup
TESTUSER.READCACHE
08:56:57.471 19400 AUTOREFRESH 3L 5C 32246P Incremental autorefresh started for
table TESTUSER.READTAB
08:56:57.471 19401 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Autorefresh Query: SELECT L."COL_10",
X."COL_20", X.ft$NotDelete, Z.rowid FROM (SELECT DISTINCT "COL_10" FROM
"TESTUSER"."TT_06_454854_L" WHERE logseq >:logseq AND ft_cacheGroup <>
100000000000*1844259679+-299200618) L,(SELECT "TESTUSER"."READTAB"."COL_10",
"TESTUSER"."READTAB"."COL_20", 1 AS ft$NotDelete  FROM "TESTUSER"."READTAB",
"TESTUSER"."T1" WHERE "TESTUSER"."READTAB"."COL_10" = "TESTUSER"."T1"."COL_10")
X, "TESTUSER"."READTAB" Z WHERE L ."COL_10" = X."COL_10" (+) AND X."COL_10" =
Z."COL_10" (+), logseq: 7
08:56:57.870 19402 AUTOREFRESH 3L 5C 32246P Duration for table
TESTUSER.READTAB: 70
08:56:57.870 19403 AUTOREFRESH 3L 5C 32246P Num Rows for table
TESTUSER.READTAB: 1
08:56:57.870 19404 AUTOREFRESH 3L 5C 32246P Cumulative rows for table
TESTUSER.READTAB: 1559
08:56:57.870 19405 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Autorefresh Query Execute duration
for table TESTUSER.READTAB: 60
08:56:57.870 19406 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Autorefresh Query Fetch duration for
table TESTUSER.READTAB: 0
08:56:57.870 19407 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Autorefresh Query Apply duration for
table TESTUSER.READTAB: 0
08:56:57.870 19408 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Max logseq applied for table
TESTUSER.READTAB: 8
08:56:57.870 19409 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Autorefresh Query Execute duration
for 7 child(ren) table(s): 32
08:56:57.870 19410 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Autorefresh Query Fetch duration for
7 child(ren) table(s): 0
08:56:57.870 19411 AUTOREFRESH 4L 5C 32246P Autorefresh Query Apply duration for
7 child(ren) table(s): 0
08:56:57.870 19412 AUTOREFRESH 3L 5C  32246P Incremental autorefresh ended for
table TESTUSER.READTAB
08:56:57.872 19413 AUTOREFRESH 2L 5C 32246P Duration For Cache Group
TESTUSER.READCACHE: 1020
08:56:57.872 19414 AUTOREFRESH 2L 5C 32246P Num Rows For Cache Group
TESTUSER.READCACHE: 1
08:56:57.872 19415 AUTOREFRESH 2L 5C 32246P Num Root Rows For Cache Group
TESTUSER.READCACHE: 0
08:56:57.872 19416 AUTOREFRESH 2L 5C 32246P Cumulative Rows for Cache Group
TESTUSER.READCACHE: 11776
08:56:57.872 19417 AUTOREFRESH 2L 5C 32246P Cumulative Root Rows for Cache Group
TESTUSER.READCACHE: 1697
08:56:57.872 19418 AUTOREFRESH 2L 5C 32246P Autorefresh ended for cache group
TESTUSER.READCACHE
08:56:57.883 19419 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Duration For Interval 60000ms: 420
08:56:57.883 19420 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Num Rows For Interval 60000ms: 0
08:56:57.883 19421 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Num Root Rows For Interval
60000ms: 0
08:56:57.883 19422 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Cumulative Rows for Interval
60000ms: 11587
08:56:57.883 19423 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Cumulative Root Rows for Interval
60000ms: 1697
08:56:57.883 19424 AUTOREFRESH 1L 5C 32246P Autorefresh number 1415 ended for
interval 60000ms successfully.
27 records dumped

Set AUTOREFRESH tracing back to its default setting (0) and exit ttTraceMon:

Trace > level autorefresh 0
Trace > {press ENTER – blank line}

Using the ttXactAdmin utility

The ttXactAdmin utility displays ownership, status, log and lock information for each outstanding transaction. You can also use it to show all current connections to a database. The ttXactAdmin utility is useful for troubleshooting problems with replication, XLA, and asynchronous writethrough cache groups.

Example 1-13 Using ttXactAdmin to diagnose a lock timeout

Use ttXactAdmin to diagnose a lock timeout. Consider two connections that are trying to update the same row. The following transaction by Connection 1 is in progress:

UPDATE table1 SET c1 = 2 WHERE c1 = 1;

Connection 2 attempts to make the following update:

UPDATE table1 SET c1 = 3 WHERE c1 = 1;

Connection 2 receives the following error:

6003: Lock request denied because of time-out
  Details: Tran 2.3 (pid 2880) wants Un lock on rowid 0x00156bbc, table
 TTUSER.TABLE1.
  But tran 1.21 (pid 2564) has it in Xn (request was Xn). Holder SQL
(update table1 set c1 = 2 where c1 = 1;)
  The command failed.

The details of the error indicate that transaction 1.21 has a lock on row 0x00156bbc, the row that transaction 2.3 wants to update. ttXactAdmin displays this information in output that pertains to actions in the entire database:

$ ttXactAdmin myDSN
2011-03-07 12:57:41.237
c:\datastore\myDSN
TimesTen Release 11.2.2.0.0

Outstanding locks

PID   Context   TransID  TransStatus  Resource   ResourceID   Mode Name

Program File Name: ttIsql

2564  0xeeb9a8  1.21     Active       Database   0x01312d00   IX
                                      Row        0x00156bbc   Xn   TTUSER.TABLE1
                                      Table      1910868      IXn  TTUSER.TABLE1

Program File Name: ttIsql

2880  0xeeb9a8  2.3      Active        Database   0x01312d00  IX
                                       Table      1910868     IXn  TTUSER.TABLE1
                                       Command    19972120    S

Awaiting locks

PID  Context   TransID Resource ResourceID  RMode HolderTransID HMode Name
2880 0xeeb9a8  2.3     Row      0x00156bbc  Un    1.21          Xn TTUSER.TABLE1

2 outstanding transactions found

See "ttXactAdmin" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Using ODBC tracing

On Windows, use the ODBC trace facility to verify the sequence and content of your commands. The ODBC trace facility works only if you have linked your application with the ODBC Driver Manager. Enable tracing by double-clicking ODBC in the Control Panel. This opens the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Choose the Tracing tab.

On UNIX platforms, ODBC tracing is available only when using a driver manager. To turn on tracing, set the Trace and TraceFile attributes.

Using SNMP traps to detect events

Network management software uses SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) to query or control the state of network devices such as routers and switches. These devices can generate alerts called traps to inform the network management systems of problems.

TimesTen sends SNMP traps for particular critical events to help facilitate user recovery mechanisms. These events are also recorded in the support log. Exposing them through SNMP traps enables network management software to take immediate action.

How to configure TimesTen to generate SNMP traps and how to receive the traps is described in "Diagnostics through SNMP Traps" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps.

Monitoring the TimesTen system tables

Each TimesTen database contains a group of system tables that store metadata about the current state of the database. The system tables are described in "System Tables" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database System Tables and Views Reference.

Note:

You can execute SELECT statements on a system table, but you cannot execute a statement such as INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE on these tables.

Use the system table SYS.SYSTEMSTATS to view database metrics. In addition, the ttStats utility enables you to monitor database metrics and to take and compare snapshots of metrics. For more information, see "SYS.SYSTEMSTATS" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database System Tables and Views Reference, "ttStats" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference, and "TT_STATS" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database PL/SQL Packages Reference.

You can also view the SYS.MONITOR table, which contains statistics about certain events that have occurred since the first connection to the database. For example, the SYS.MONITOR table contains information about the number of connections to the database; the number of checkpoints taken; the size of the database; and the amount of memory currently in use. Check the contents of the SYS.MONITOR table by executing SELECT statements on the columns or by using the ttIsql monitor command. For an example of how to use the ttIsql monitor command, see "Using the ttIsql Utility" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Using the query optimizer

The query optimizer is an important tool for performance tuning.

For details about using the query optimizer, see:

"The TimesTen Query Optimizer" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

"Viewing and changing query optimizer plans" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

If you find that a given query runs more slowly than expected, confirm that the query optimizer has the latest statistics for the tables in your query, as described in "Update query optimizer statistics". If, after updating your statistics, your query still runs too slowly, it is possible that the TimesTen optimizer is not choosing the optimal query plan to answer that query. Under these circumstances, you can adjust how the optimizer generates a plan by using the ttOpt procedures described in "Modifying plan generation" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide. You can also use statement level optimizer hints to influence the optimizer at the statement level. For more information, see "Statement level optimizer hints" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database SQL Reference.

2 Troubleshooting TimesTen Applications and Databases

The following sections provide information to help you diagnose and remedy some problems encountered while using a TimesTen database:

Note:

If you are still having problems with your database after following the troubleshooting recommendations in this chapter, contact TimesTen technical support.

Unable to start or stop TimesTen daemon

No response from TimesTen daemon or subdaemon

Unable to create shared segment

Application unable to connect to database in direct mode

Troubleshooting Client/Server problems

Application connects or disconnects are slow

Application is disconnected unexpectedly

Application is slow

Application unresponsive, appears hung

Application unable to find previously created objects

Troubleshooting OCI and Pro*C/C++ applications

Running out of a resource

Duplicate results from a SELECT statement

Cannot attach PL/SQL shared memory

Unable to start or stop TimesTen daemon

This section describes what to check if you cannot start or stop the TimesTen main daemon.

Possible cause
What to do

Privilege is incorrect.
You need the ADMIN privilege to start or stop the TimesTen daemon. Ensure that you are using the ttDaemonAdmin utility to start the daemon. The output from ttDaemonAdmin shows whether you have the correct privilege.

Another process is using the TimesTen daemon port.
Use the ttVersion utility to verify what port number the TimesTen daemon is expected to use. Use an operating system command like netstat to check whether another process is listening on the port. If there is a conflict, either change the port number used by the other process or use ttmodinstall to change the port used by TimesTen.

TimesTen daemon is already running.
Ensure that you are using the ttDaemonAdmin utility to start the daemon. The output from ttDaemonAdmin shows whether the daemon is already running.

There are other problems.
Inspect the user error log produced by the daemon. See "Using the logs generated by the TimesTen daemon".

No response from TimesTen daemon or subdaemon

The following sections describe what to do if one or more of the TimesTen processes appears to be unavailable:

Check the TimesTen user error log

Extract a stack trace from the core file

Check the TimesTen user error log

If you receive an error that indicates the TimesTen subdaemon has stopped, inspect the user error log, as described in "Using the logs generated by the TimesTen daemon".

If the TimesTen daemon crashes, it cannot send anything to the user error log, but the subdaemons send a 'main daemon vanished' message to the log before exiting:

09:24:13 Err : 4375 ------------------: Main daemon has vanished

Restart the daemon. The next connection to each database causes TimesTen to recover from the checkpoint and transaction log files. See "Working with the TimesTen Data Manager Daemon" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Extract a stack trace from the core file

If you experience a crash by one of the TimesTen processes on a UNIX system and have exhausted all of the diagnostic options, check to see if TimesTen has generated a core file. Use the ttVersion utility to find the core file. Look for a line in the output that shows a path for the daemon home directory:

TimesTen Release (ttuser:40732)
2011-04-04T17:53:04Z
   Instance admin: ttuser
   Instance home directory:
/node1/ttuser/ttcur/TTBuild/linux86_dbg/install
   Daemon home directory:
/node1/ttuser/ttcur/TTBuild/linux86_dbg/install/info

After locating the core file, attach to the debugger on the system and extract the stack trace from the core file and send the trace results to TimesTen technical support.

On Windows systems you can obtain diagnostic information for a service failure by enabling the 'allow service to interact with desktop' option in the properties dialog for the TimesTen data manager in the Service menu. If an irrecoverable fault occurs in the TimesTen data manager service, a pop-up asks if you would like to start the debugger. Contact TimesTen technical support and provide the stack trace.

Unable to create shared segment

You may receive an error that indicates that a shared segment could not be created:

4671: TT14000: TimesTen daemon internal error: Error 28 creating shared segment,
KEY 0x0201f7eb
4671:  -- OS reports too many shared segments in use
4671:  -- Confirm using 'ipcs' and take appropriate action
4671: 18538 ------------------: subdaemon process exited

Using the Linux ipcs command may display information like this:

------ Shared Memory Segments --------
 key        shmid      owner     perms      bytes      nattch     status
 0x00000000 1098350592 user1     777        10624      2          dest
 0x00000000 1084817409 user1     777        2439680    2          dest
 0x911fc211 1098383362 user2     666        67108864   1
 0x2814afba 170721285  root      666        1048576    1

A status of dest means the memory segment is marked to be destroyed. nattch shows the number of processes still attached to the memory segment. The ipcrm command cannot free the shared memory until the processes detach from the segment or exit. If an application connects to TimesTen and then becomes inactive, nothing can free the shared memory until the user exits or stops the application.

Application unable to connect to database in direct mode

This section describes what to check if your application cannot connect to a database in direct mode.

Possible cause
See...

There is a mismatch between the release of TimesTen and database.
"Upgrading your database"

User does not have CREATE SESSION privilege.
"Privileges to connect to database"

File permissions are incorrect.
"Check file system permissions to access database"

TimesTen daemon or Data Manager service is not running.
"Check that the TimesTen daemon is running"

Incompatible connection attributes or incorrect path name for database set in the DSN.
"Check DSN definition"

There is no available shared memory segment or maximum size of shared memory segment is too small.
"Manage semaphores and shared memory segments"

There is not enough swap space.
"Check available swap space (virtual memory)"

Number of file descriptors is inadequate.
"Increase the number of available file descriptors"

There are other possible causes.
"Using the logs generated by the TimesTen daemon"

Upgrading your database

A database is only guaranteed to be accessible by the same minor release of TimesTen that was used to create the database. When you upgrade the TimesTen software and you would like to use the new release to access a database that was previously created, create a database with the new release. Then use the ttMigrate utility to copy the tables, indexes, and table data from the old database to the new one.

See "TimesTen Upgrades" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide for details.

Privileges to connect to database

The user must have the CREATE SESSION privilege to connect to the database. If you do not have access, the administrator must use the GRANT statement to grant you the CREATE SESSION privilege. See "Granting privileges to connect to the database" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Check file system permissions to access database

A "permission denied" error is generated if you attempt to connect to a database and you do not have the proper permissions to access the checkpoint or transaction log files or the directory where those files reside. Check the file system permissions on the files located in the directory specified in the DataStore attribute in your DSN.

Check that the TimesTen daemon is running

If the TimesTen daemon or Data Manager service is not running, an attempt to connect to a database generates TimesTen error 799 "Unable to connect to daemon; check daemon status."

Use the ttStatus utility as described in "Check the TimesTen user error log" to check the status of the TimesTen daemon.

Check DSN definition

In your DSN description, perform the following:

Check DSN attributes

Check path name to database and transaction log directories

Check DSN attributes

Certain connection options or DSN attribute settings combinations are not compatible. In cases where incompatible settings are used, an error is returned to the application when it attempts to connect to a database.

Check path name to database and transaction log directories

Confirm that you have specified the correct path names in the DataStore and LogDir attributes in your DSN. Also confirm that the path names are absolute path names, rather than relative. Otherwise, the path name will be relative to the directory where the application was started.

On Windows, be careful to distinguish between User and System DSNs in the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Do not create user DSNs because they are visible only to the user who defines them. System DSNs are visible to all users. In particular, if you run a TimesTen application as a Windows service, it runs as the user SYSTEM by default and does not see any User DSNs. Make sure that you are not using a mapped drive in the database path name.

Manage semaphores and shared memory segments

An error is generated if you attempt to connect to or create a shared database whose size is larger than the maximum size of shared memory segments configured on your system. Also, an error is generated if the system cannot allocate any more shared memory segments.

On UNIX systems, use commands similar to the following:

ipcs -ma to check if you have other shared memory segments using up memory, such as Oracle Database instances or other instances of TimesTen.

ipcrm to remove a message queue, semaphore set or shared memory segment identifier. Use ipcrm to clean up semaphores or shared memory segments after a faulty TimesTen shutdown, instance crash, daemon crash or other application issues that use shared memory segments and semaphores. Use -m to remove a shared memory segment. Use -s to remove a semaphore.

ps -eafl to see how much memory is being used by running processes.

ulimit -a to see if there are any limits on the maximum amount of memory one process can address, maximum file size, and the maximum number of open files.

If a shared memory segment is available but is too small to hold your database, use the ttSize utility to estimate the amount of memory required for your tables and then check the values of the PermSize and TempSize attributes to verify the amount of memory established for your database. "Monitoring PermSize and TempSize attributes" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide describes guidelines for setting the size of your permanent and temporary memory regions. If the amount of memory established for your database is too large, reset PermSize and TempSize to smaller values. See "Check the amount of memory allocated to the database" for more information. Another option is to increase the maximum size of the shared memory segment, as described below.

If your application is connected to your database and your database is invalidated because of a system or application failure, the database shared segment is not automatically detached from your application. The next time your application tries to use the database, the application will be disconnected from the database and the shared segment will be detached. If your application remains connected to the invalidated database and does not try to use the database, the application will not disconnect from the database and the shared segment will not be detached. To free memory and swap space, make sure you disconnect or terminate all applications that are connected to the invalidated database.

If a database becomes invalidated because of a system or application failure, and you have disconnected all applications from the database, a subsequent connection recovers the database. If recovery fails because you have run out of database space, then reconnect to the database with a larger PermSize and TempSize value than the ones that are currently in effect.

For more information on how to configure shared memory for TimesTen, see "Installation prerequisites" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide.

Check available swap space (virtual memory)

There must be enough swap space to back up shared memory.

On UNIX systems, use the swap command to check and add virtual memory to your system.

On Windows systems, check and reset the size of your virtual memory from the Advanced tab in your Computer Management Properties dialog window.

Increase the number of available file descriptors

Each process connected to a TimesTen database keeps at least one operating system file descriptor open. Additional file descriptors may be opened for each connection if checkpoints are issued, and transactions are committed or rolled back. If you receive an error that all file descriptors are in use when attempting to connect to a database, then increase the allowable number of file descriptors. See your operating system documentation for limits on file descriptors and information about changing the number of file descriptors.

Troubleshooting Client/Server problems

This section includes the following topics:

Cannot connect to the TimesTen Server

TimesTen Server failed

Cannot find Server DSN

TimesTen Server failed to load DRIVER

Application times out when accessing TimesTen Server

TimesTen Client loses connection with TimesTen Server

Failed to attach to shared memory segment for IPC

Increasing the maximum server connections on Windows XP

Thread stack overflow when using multiple client connections

Out of space when DSN specifies new database

Also consider the topics described in "Application unable to connect to database in direct mode".

Cannot connect to the TimesTen Server

You have not correctly identified the system where the TimesTen Server is running.

On a Windows client, select the TimesTen Server in the TimesTen Data Source Setup dialog that is displayed as part of the ODBC Data Source Administrator. To verify the TimesTen Server:

On the Windows Desktop, choose Start > Settings > Control Panel.

Double click the ODBC icon. This opens the ODBC Data Source Administrator.

Click the System DSN tab. This displays the System Data Sources list.

Select the TimesTen Client data source. This opens the TimesTen Client DSN Setup dialog.

Click Servers. This opens the TimesTen Logical Server List.

Select the TimesTen Server from the list. This opens the TimesTen Logical Server Name Setup dialog.

Verify that the values for the Network Address and Port Number are correct. If necessary, change the values.

Note:

If you typed the host name or network address directly into the Server Name field of the TimesTen Client DSN Setup, the Client tries to connect to the TimesTen Server using the default port.

If the Network Address and Port Number values are correct, the TimesTen Server may not be running. In the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide, see "Starting and stopping the Oracle TimesTen Data Manager service on Windows" for information about starting the server manually, and "Testing connections" for more information about identifying this problem.

On UNIX, specify the TimesTen Server with the TTC_Server connection attribute in the odbc.ini file on the client. If the value specified for TTC_Server is an actual host name or IP address, the client tries to connect to the TimesTen Server using the default port. In TimesTen, the default port is associated with the TimesTen release number. If the value specified for TTC_Server is a logical Server Name, this logical Server Name must be defined in the ttconnect.ini file. The ttconnect.ini entry for this Server Name must correctly define the host name/IP address and port number on which the TimesTen Server is listening.

If the Network Address and Port Number values are correct, the TimesTen Server may not be running or did not start. See "Starting and stopping the daemon on UNIX" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide for information about starting the server manually. See "Testing connections" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide for more information about identifying this problem.

TimesTen Server failed

Check the server's log file. Server log messages are stored in the files specified by the -userlog and -supportlog options in the ttendaemon.options file. See "Creating and configuring Client DSNs on UNIX" and "Managing TimesTen daemon options" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

The maximum number of concurrent IPC connections to the Server of a particular TimesTen instance is 24,999. However, TimesTen has a limit of 2043 connections (direct or client/server) to a single DSN.

Client/server users can change the file descriptor limit to support a large number of connections. For an example, see "Installation prerequisites" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide.

Cannot find Server DSN

On UNIX, verify that the Server DSN is defined in the sys.odbc.ini file on the system running the TimesTen Server.

On Windows, verify that the Server DSN is defined as a System DSN in the ODBC Data Source Administrator on the system running the TimesTen Server. See "Creating and configuring a logical server name on Windows" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

TimesTen Server failed to load DRIVER

This error only occurs on UNIX platforms. Open the sys.odbc.ini file on the system running the TimesTen Server and locate the Server DSN you are trying to connect. Verify that the dynamic library specified in the DRIVER attribute for the Server DSN exists and is executable.

Application times out when accessing TimesTen Server

The default TimeOut interval is 60 seconds.

To increase this interval on UNIX, change the value of the TTC_Timeout attribute in the odbc.ini file.

To set the timeout interval on Windows, see the instructions in "Setting the timeout interval and authentication" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

TimesTen Client loses connection with TimesTen Server

Check to see if the error was due to the Client timing out. Check the TimesTen Server's log to see why the Server may have severed connection with the Client. Use ping to determine if your network is up or try using telnet to connect to the TimesTen Server port number.

Failed to attach to shared memory segment for IPC

While using shared memory segment (SHM) as IPC, the application may see the following error message from the TimesTen Client ODBC Driver if the application reaches the system-defined per-process file-descriptor-limit.

SQLState    = S1000,
Native Error = 0,
Message     = [TimesTen][TimesTen 11.2.2 CLIENT]Failed to attach to shared memory
segment for IPC. System error: 24

This may happen during a connect operation to the Client DSN when the shmat system call fails because the application has more open file descriptors than the system-defined per-process file descriptor limit. To correct this problem, you must increase your system-defined per-process file descriptor limit. For more information about file descriptor limits, see "System Limits" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Increasing the maximum server connections on Windows XP

On Windows XP, by default, there can be approximately 47 child server processes. You can increase the number of connections by setting the MaxConnsPerServer connection attribute in the ttendaemon.options file or in the DSN. This increases the number of connections to 47 times the MaxConnsPerServer value.

Thread stack overflow when using multiple client connections

On Solaris, you may receive messages in the user error log about thread stack overflow. On other platforms, you may receive messages about a segmentation fault that mention a possible thread stack overflow.

If these messages occur, increase the server stack size by one of the following methods:

Specify the -ServerStackSize option in the ttendaemon.options file. The ttendaemon.options file applies to all DSNs in the TimesTen instance.

Specify the ServerStackSize connection attribute for a specific DSN. This takes precedence over the value in the ttendaemon.options file.

Increasing the server stack size decreases the number of concurrent connections that can be made before running out of swap space.

See "Working with the TimesTen Client and Server" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Out of space when DSN specifies new database

You may receive "out of space" messages if you change a DSN to specify a new database while there are existing connections to the original database in a system with multiple client connections. This can happen on 32-bit platforms if either database is close to 2 GB.

Close all connections to the original database. This causes a new server process to be created for connections to the database that is now specified in the DSN. Use the ttStatus utility to list the connections for the old database. Alternatively, you can restart the server by using the ttDaemonAdmin utility with the -restartServer option, which resets all client connections on all DSNs in the instance.

Application connects or disconnects are slow

This section describes what to check if you encounter slow connects and disconnects to a database. First check your ramPolicy setting. If the ramPolicy setting is inUse, and you are the only user, then at first connect, the entire database is loaded into memory. Consider changing ramPolicy to either always or manual. For more information, see "ttAdmin" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Possible cause
See...

Database is being recovered.
"Check if database is being recovered", below

ODBC tracing is enabled.
"Check ODBC tracing", below

There are other possible causes.
"API tracing"

Check if database is being recovered

A slow connect may indicate that a TimesTen database is being recovered. This happens only for a first connect.

Check ODBC tracing

On Windows platforms, if ODBC tracing is enabled, it can slow connect and disconnect speeds. Double-click ODBC in the Control Panel to open the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Select the Tracing tab and confirm tracing is disabled. See "Using ODBC tracing".

Application is disconnected unexpectedly

If an application becomes disconnected from a TimesTen database, one of the following events occurs:

If there was no outstanding transaction, the connection is cleanly removed by the TimesTen daemon. Other existing connections continue processing as if no problem had occurred.

If there was an outstanding transaction, the transaction is rolled back and the connection is cleanly removed by the TimesTen daemon. Other existing connections continue processing as if no problem had occurred.

This section describes what to check if your application unexpectedly disconnects from the database.

Possible cause
See...

There is an internal application error.
"Check for ODBC, JDBC, OCI, Pro*C, and PL/SQL application errors", below

There is failure of a concurrent application thread.
"Check for ODBC, JDBC, OCI, Pro*C, and PL/SQL application errors", below

"Check the user error log"

If using a client/server connection, the client may have disconnected from the application.
"Troubleshooting Client/Server problems"

There is an error in the TimesTen library.
Contact TimesTen technical support.

Check for ODBC, JDBC, OCI, Pro*C, and PL/SQL application errors

Check for the following types of errors:

ODBC errors returned by the SQLError function

JDBC errors returned by the SQLException class

TimesTen OCI and Pro*C applications, and those that use PL/SQL, report errors using Oracle database error codes instead of TimesTen error codes. The error messages that accompany the error codes may come from the TimesTen error catalog or the Oracle database error catalog.

By default, TimesTen messages and diagnostic information are stored in:

A user error log that contains error message information. Generally, these messages contain information on actions you may need to take. The default file is daemon_home/tterrors.log. For more information on modifying the location of the user error log, see "Modifying informational messages" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

A support log containing everything in the user error log plus information of use by TimesTen technical support. The default file is daemon_home/ttmesg.log. For more information on modifying the location of the user error log, see "Modifying informational messages" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

An invalidation file containing diagnostic information when TimesTen invalidates a database. This file provides useful troubleshooting information for TimesTen technical support. The invalidation file is created and named based on the value specified by the DataStore connection attribute. This connection attribute is not a file name. For example on Linux platforms, if the DataStore connection attribute is /home/ttuser/AdminData, the actual invalidation file name has a suffix, .inval, /home/ttuser/AdminData.inval. For more information on the DataStore connection attribute, see "DataStore" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

It may be helpful to use ttTraceMon to generate a level 4 ERR trace for the application and review all of the errors messages that are pushed in the TimesTen direct driver. See "ERR tracing" for details.

Check the user error log

If a TimesTen application disconnects without returning an ODBC error or any other warning, look through the user error log. See "Using the logs generated by the TimesTen daemon".

Application is slow

For details on how to maximize the performance of your application and TimesTen database, see:

"TimesTen Database Performance Tuning" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

"ODBC Application Tuning" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database C Developer's Guide

"Java Application Tuning" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Java Developer's Guide

This section describes some issues that impair performance.

Possible cause
See...

Using client/server mode.
"Consider connection mode"

Database statistics are outdated.
"Update statistics for your tables"

Committing transactions too frequently.
"Turn off autocommit mode" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

DurableCommits attribute is enabled.
"Use durable commits appropriately" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

SQL statements used more than once are not prepared.
"Prepare statements in advance" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

There is a wrong kind of index, too many indexes, or a wrong size for hash index.
"Select hash, range, or bitmap indexes appropriately" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

"Size hash indexes appropriately" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

Use of locks is inefficient.
"Verify lock and isolation levels"

Materialized view is improperly configured.
"Performance implications of materialized views" and "Materialized view tuning" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide

If replication is used, configuration of replication scheme or network environment may be impacting application.
"Poor replication or XLA performance"

If TimesTen Cache is used, TimesTen Cache configuration or environment may be impacting application.
"Poor autorefresh performance"

There are too many table partitions.
"Check partition counts for the tables"

Tracing is unnecessarily enabled for one or more TimesTen components.
"Check trace settings"

Consider connection mode

Client/server connections are slower than direct connections to TimesTen databases. Driver manager connections can also moderately impact performance. The performance overhead imposed by client/server connections can be significant because of the network latencies involved in all communication with the database.

If your application must run on a different system from the one hosting the database, see "Client/Server tuning" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Update statistics for your tables

The TimesTen query optimizer in general is very good at choosing the most efficient query plan. However, it needs additional information about the tables involved in complex queries in order to choose the best plan. By knowing the number of rows and data distributions of column values for a table, the optimizer has a much better chance of choosing an efficient query plan to access that table.

Before preparing queries that will access a TimesTen table, use the ttOptUpdateStats procedure to update the statistics for that table. When updating the statistics for a table, you get the best results if you update statistics on your tables after loading them with data, but before preparing your queries. For example, if you update statistics on a table before populating it with data, then your queries are optimized with the assumption that the tables contain no rows (or very few). If you later populate your tables with millions of rows and then execute the queries, the plans that worked well for the situation where your tables contained few rows may now be very slow.

For more information about updating statistics, see "The TimesTen Query Optimizer" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Verify lock and isolation levels

The manner in which multiple applications concurrently access the database can have a major impact on performance.

An application can acquire locks on the entire database, individual tables, and individual rows. Additionally, applications can set an isolation level that determines whether they hold read and update locks until their transactions commit or roll back.

Check the SYS.SYSTEMSTATS table, the SYS.MONITOR table, or use the ttXactAdmin utility to detect whether an application is spending time waiting for locks. See "Check for deadlocks and timeouts" and "Using the ttXactAdmin utility".

If lock contention is high, you may be able to improve the overall performance of your system by implementing the following:

Set the LockLevel configuration attribute or use the ttLockLevel procedure to place locks on rows, rather than on the entire database. Row locking is the default.

Use the ttOptSetFlag procedure to prevent the query optimizer from placing locks on tables. Table locks are sometimes the default, particularly for updates that affect many rows.

Use read-committed isolation level (Isolation=1, the default) for those applications do not require serializable access to the transaction data.

If you see a lot of lock contention, but the above settings are all set to minimize contention, then the contention may be related to the application itself. For example, concurrent threads may be repeatedly accessing the same row. The ttXactAdmin utility can sometimes help you detect this sort of contention. Tracing can also be useful in this situation.

For more information about locks and isolation levels, see "Concurrency control through isolation and locking" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Check trace settings

Use ttTraceMon -e show as described in "Using the ttTraceMon utility" to confirm tracing is off on all TimesTen components. ERR should be set to 1; all other components should be set to 0. Trace levels are preserved when a database is reloaded.

On Windows platforms, confirm that ODBC tracing is disabled. Double-click ODBC in the Control Panel to open the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Select the Tracing tab and confirm tracing is disabled. See "Using ODBC tracing".

Check partition counts for the tables

When a table is created, it has one partition. When you use ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN to add new columns, a new partition is added to the table. Adding multiple columns with a single ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN statement only adds one partition.

There is a limit of 999 partitions per table. Exceeding this number generates error 8204. An extra read for each new partition slightly degrades performance for each of the new partitions. A high partition count should be avoided. On replicated tables that have multiple partitions, additional space is used for each update on the subscriber side, proportional to the number of partitions. This can result in the subscribers using slightly more perm space than the master.

The partition value for each table is tracked in the SYS16 column of the system table, SYS.TABLES. Obtain the partition counts for tables by using the following query:

SELECT tblname, sys16 FROM SYS.TABLES;

If you discover that a table has too many partitions, do one of the following:

Recreate the table.

Save and restore the table. Use ttMigrate -c to create a migration file. Then restore the table without additional partitions by using ttMigrate -r -relaxedUpgrade.

ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN does not remove partitions from a table. On replicated systems, all master and subscriber databases must be migrated using the -relaxedUpgrade option. Replication does not occur for tables that have different partition structures.

Application unresponsive, appears hung

This section describes what to check if your application is unresponsive and appears to be hung. First use pstack or equivalent to determine where your application is spending its time.

Possible cause
See...

There is an internal application error.
"Check for ODBC errors", below

Connection attributes set in DSN are inconsistent.
"Consider connection mode"

There is excessive lock contention.
"Check for deadlocks and timeouts", below

For any possible cause, you can also see the next section, "Check logs and gather trace information".

Check logs and gather trace information

If your application hangs, check the transaction log by using the ttXactAdmin utility. See "Using the ttXactAdmin utility".

Also check the user error log for errors, as described in "Using the logs generated by the TimesTen daemon".

You can also generate a trace log to detect the activities on various TimesTen components as described in "Using the ttTraceMon utility".

Check for ODBC errors

Check the ODBC errors returned by the SQLError function in all applications to determine whether one of them has encountered a problem that caused it to hang. Call SQLError after each ODBC call to identify error or warning conditions when they first happen. Examples of SQLError usage can be found in the demo programs and in "Retrieving errors and warnings" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps.

If the problem is repeatable, use ttTraceMon to generate a SQL trace to determine where the application is hanging. See "SQL tracing" for details. In more extreme cases, it may be helpful to generate a level 4 ERR trace for the application and review all of the errors messages that are pushed in the TimesTen direct driver. See "ERR tracing" for details.

Check for deadlocks and timeouts

If there is no connect problem, a deadlock or timeout may be the problem. The SYS.SYSTEMSTATS table and the SYS.MONITOR table records information about deadlocks and timeouts. See "Monitoring the TimesTen system tables" for information on how view the contents of this table. You can also use the ttXactAdmin utility to detect the types of locks currently held by uncommitted transactions and the resources on which they are being held.

If a deadlock occurs, the TimesTen subdaemon negotiates the problem by having an application involved in the deadlock generate TimesTen error 6002, "Lock request denied because of deadlock." The error message contains the SQL that the lock holder is running, which can help you diagnose the cause of the deadlock. If your application encounters this error, it should roll back the transaction and then reissue the statements for that transaction. Deadlocks can be caused if your application issues statements in a particular order that results in a circular wait, and can sometimes be prevented by changing the order in which the statements are issued.

An application encounters TimesTen error 6003, "Lock request denied because of timeout," if it cannot acquire a lock within the time period defined by the lock timeout interval set by the LockWait attribute in the DSN or by the ttLockWait procedure in your application. Upon encountering a timeout error, your application can reissue the statement. Keeping transactions short reduces the possibility of lock timeout errors.

In multithreaded applications, a thread that issues requests on different connection handles to the same database may encounter lock conflict with itself. TimesTen resolves these conflicts with lock timeouts.

Application unable to find previously created objects

This section describes what to check if your application cannot locate previously created tables, indexes, sequences or views in the database.

Possible cause | See...
Database is temporary. | "Check temporary DSN attribute", below
Overwrite attribute is enabled. | "Check Overwrite DSN attribute", below shortly
Path name specified in DSN is relative. | "Check path name to database", below

Check temporary DSN attribute

Temporary databases (DSN attribute: Temporary=1) persist until all connections to the database have been removed. When attempting to access a table in a temporary database and the table does not exist, it is possible that the database in which the table resided in has been dropped.

Check Overwrite DSN attribute

If the Overwrite and AutoCreate DSN attributes are enabled and the database already exists, TimesTen drops that database and creates a new one. Any tables that were created in the old database are dropped.

Check path name to database

To ensure that you are always accessing the same database when connecting to a particular DSN, use an absolute database path name instead of a relative one. For example, if the demo database is in the datastore directory, specify:

DataStore=/datastore/demo

rather than:

DataStore=demo

In the latter case, the database path name is relative to the directory where the application was started. If you cannot find a table and you are using a relative database path name, it is possible that the database in which the table resides in does exist but the database (checkpoint and log) files are in a different directory than the one that you are accessing.

See "Specifying Data Source Names to identify TimesTen databases" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Troubleshooting OCI and Pro*C/C++ applications

On Windows, if NLS_LANG is not set in the environment, the NLS_LANG setting is taken from the registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORACLE\NLS_LANG. If NLS_LANG is set to an invalid value or if NLS_LANG indicates an unsupported character set, either an OCI connection failed error or an ORA-12705 error is thrown. For more information on supported character sets, see "Supported character sets" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Refer to the "Globalization support" section in the OCI chapter of the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database C Developer's Guide for more information on NLS_LANG.

Running out of a resource

This section describes what to check if TimesTen runs out of resources such as memory space, disk space, file descriptors, and semaphores.

Symptom
See...

Memory consumption seems high.
"Operating system tools and shared memory", below

Running out of memory space.

"Operating system tools and shared memory", below

"Check the amount of memory allocated to the database"

"Update query optimizer statistics"

"Check memory used by queries"

"Out of memory after fatal crash of the database"

Running out of disk space.
"Check transaction log file use of disk space"

"Check if tracing is enabled"

Running out of transaction log space.
"Check transaction log file use of disk space"

Running out of file descriptors.
"Increase the number of available file descriptors"

Running out of semaphores.
"Check the semaphore limit"

Running out of CPU.
Obtain a stack trace and contact TimesTen technical support.

Operating system tools and shared memory

Operating system tools such as top, vmstat, and sar provide statistics about processes and memory usage. The output from these tools can be misleading as an indicator of TimesTen memory consumption because they report shared memory usage for each process but do not report total shared memory usage. Adding together various memory statistics for TimesTen processes overestimates the amount of memory used by TimesTen because shared memory is by definition shared.

Check the amount of memory allocated to the database

TimesTen uses both permanent and temporary memory regions. The amount of memory allocated for these regions is set by the PermSize and TempSize attributes in the DSN definition for the database.

When the TimesTen database fills up, it is important to determine whether it is the permanent or the temporary memory region that is filling up. Use the ttIsql dssize command to list allocated, in-use, and high water mark sizes for the permanent and temporary memory regions. The dssize command selects the following values from SYS.MONITOR:

PERM_ALLOCATED_SIZE

PERM_IN_USE_SIZE

PERM_IN_USE_HIGH_WATER

TEMP_ALLOCATED_SIZE

TEMP_IN_USE_SIZE

TEMP_IN_USE_HIGH_WATER

The permanent memory region consists of table and index data, while the temporary memory region consists of internal structures, such as locks, sorting areas, and compiled commands.

Keeping transactions short and making sure there is enough temporary space in the database prevents locks from occupying all of the remaining temporary space. You can also use table locks if transactions are acquiring tens of thousands of row locks.

For tips on how to estimate the size of your database, see "Size your database correctly" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Permanent memory region filling up

Consider whether you can drop any indexes. You may want to look at query plans to see which indexes are actually used. See "Viewing and changing query optimizer plans" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide. You can also use the ttRedundantIndexCheck procedure to discover redundant indexes. The procedure returns suggestions about which indexes to drop.

Use the ttSize utility to estimate the amount of memory used by each table in the database. If the amount of data you need to store is too big, you may need to reset the PermSize attribute for the database to increase the size of the permanent memory region. Alternatively, you may need to partition your data into several different databases if, for example, you cannot shrink the temporary memory region or create a bigger database because of limits on the memory.

Sometimes when the permanent memory region fills up, copying the data out of the database, deleting all the data, and copying it back in frees up space. This can be done more efficiently by using the ttMigrate utility with the -relaxedUpgrade option to migrate the data out, destroy and recreate the database, and migrate the data back in. This operation is described in "Reducing database size" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide.

Finally, you may have to configure the operating system to allow a larger amount of shared memory to be allocated to a process. You may also have to allocate more swap space for virtual memory.

Temporary memory region filling up

Some commands may be allocating too much space because of out-of-date statistics. See "Update query optimizer statistics", following.

If updating the statistics does not reduce the temporary memory region, disconnect all connections and then reconnect them. Verify that all connections have been disconnected by using the ttStatus utility. That frees up all temporary space, but you must reprepare commands.

Diagnose memory usage by queries. See "Check memory used by queries", following shortly.

Update query optimizer statistics

Make sure you have updated the optimizer statistics with the ttOptUpdateStats or ttOptEstimateStats procedure. To execute some queries, TimesTen must allocate temporary space. The amount of temporary space required is estimated from statistics about the tables used by the query. Without correct statistics, the temporary space required may be underestimated.

See "Using the query optimizer".

Check memory used by queries

You can check the memory that a query uses by observing the high water mark for temporary memory usage. The high water mark represents the largest amount of in-use temporary space used since the high water mark was initialized or reset.

Complete the following tasks:

Use the ttIsql dssize command to check TEMP_IN_USE_SIZE and TEMP_IN_USE_HIGH_WATER. Alternatively, you can query the SYS.SYSTEMSTATS or the SYS.MONITOR table for these values.

Call the ttMonitorHighWaterReset procedure to reset the TEMP_IN_USE_HIGH_WATER to the current value for TEMP_IN_USE_SIZE.

Execute a query.

Use dssize to check TEMP_IN_USE_HIGH_WATER for peak memory usage for the query.

Out of memory after fatal crash of the database

Irrecoverable errors, such as errors 846 and 994, invalidate a TimesTen database. However, the database remains in memory, which is only freed after all users have disconnected from the database. If the database is restarted while users are connected to the invalidated database, both old and new instances exist in memory at the same time. In this case, users could receive out-of-memory conditions. To prevent an "Out of memory" error, disconnect all active connections at the time of the irrecoverable error before reconnecting. These irrecoverable errors are rare.

Check transaction log file use of disk space

TimesTen saves a copy of the database in two checkpoint files, which are stored in the directory specified by the DataStore attribute. Each checkpoint file can grow on disk to be equivalent to the size of the database in shared memory. For each permanent database, you must have enough disk space for the two checkpoint files and for transaction log files.

Transaction log files accumulate in the directory specified by the LogDir attribute and are only deleted when checkpoints are performed. If the LogDir attribute is not specified in the DSN, transaction log files accumulate in the directory specified by the DataStore attribute. The maximum size of your transaction log files is set by the LogFileSize attribute.

When a disk fills up with TimesTen data, it is most often due to a build-up of transaction log files. Transaction log files are used for numerous purposes in TimesTen, including transaction rollbacks, backups, and replication. It is important to determine which operation is putting a "hold" on the transaction log files, so that appropriate action can be taken to enable the transaction log files to be purged. This can be done by using the ttLogHolds built-in procedure. There are six types of log holds. They are discussed in detail below.

Long-running transactions - TimesTen uses the transaction log to roll back transactions. A log hold is placed for the duration of a transaction. Transactions that are active for a long time result in log file building up if the transaction has written at least one log record. (That is, it is not a read-only transaction.) Commit write transactions with reasonable frequency to avoid significant log file build-up. See "Size transactions appropriately" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide for more information on transaction length.

Checkpoint - If a TimesTen application crashes and the database must be recovered, the checkpoint files and transaction log files are used to recover the data. The "most recent" transaction log files are used -- those written since the checkpoint was done. Transaction log files accumulate during the interval between checkpoints. If checkpoints are done very infrequently, a large number of transaction log files may accumulate, particularly if many changes are made to the database during that interval. See "Checkpoint operations" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Replication -TimesTen replication transmits changes from one database to one or more other databases. It does this by reading the transaction log and sending any relevant changes. If replication goes down, the transaction log files build up. See "Setting the replication state of subscribers" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for more information on pausing and restarting or resetting replication.

Backup - TimesTen supports an incremental backup facility that uses transaction log files to augment a backup with changes made since the last backup. Transaction log files accumulate during the interval between incremental backups. To avoid a large log build-up, do incremental backups at relatively frequent intervals. If desired, disable incremental backups and do full backups instead. See "Migration, Backup, and Restoration" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide.

XLA - TimesTen's persistent XLA facility reports changes to the database by using transaction log files. Transaction log files are kept until the corresponding transactions have been acknowledged using the ttXlaAcknowledge C function. Call ttXlaAcknowledge frequently enough to prevent transaction log files building up. See "Retrieving update records from the transaction log" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database C Developer's Guide.

XA - TimesTen's XA support uses transaction log files to resolve distributed transactions. If these transactions are not resolved in a timely manner, transaction log files build up. See "Distributed Transaction Processing: XA" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database C Developer's Guide.

The following attributes are related to disk use.

The LogPurge attribute indicates whether transaction log files that no longer have a hold on them are purged (removed from the disk) or simply archived (renamed). If the LogPurge attribute is set to the default value of 0, TimesTen renames transaction log files that it no longer needs by appending the string .arch to the name. Once renamed, you must delete the transaction log files manually when they are no longer needed. If transaction log files are not purged, they continue to accumulate space, even when no longer needed by TimesTen.

The Preallocate attribute indicates whether disk space should be reserved for checkpoint files at connect time. This is useful for big databases, to ensure that the disk always has room for the checkpoint files as data is added to the database.

Check if tracing is enabled

When tracing to a file has been enabled, the file may grow so large that a process attempting an operation may exceed the file limits. Tracing always appends to an existing file.

Check the semaphore limit

When creating multiple client/server connections to a TimesTen database configured to allow shared memory segment as IPC, you may encounter errors that indicate TimesTen could not create a semaphore.

Semaphore limits are platform-dependent.

Duplicate results from a SELECT statement

Using read-committed isolation level can lead to duplicates in a result set. A SELECT statement selects more or fewer rows than the total number of rows in the table if some rows are added or removed and committed in the range in which the SELECT scan is occurring. This may happen when an UPDATE, INSERT or DELETE statement adds or deletes a value from an index and the SELECT scan is using this index. This can also happen when an INSERT or DELETE adds or deletes rows from the table and the SELECT operation is using an all-table scan.

Index values are ordered. An UPDATE of an index value may delete the old value and insert the new value into a different place. In other words it moves a row from one position in the index to another position. If an index scan sees the same row in both positions, it returns the row twice. This does not happen with a serial scan because table pages are unordered and rows do not need to be moved around for an UPDATE. Hence once a scan passes a row, it will not see that same row again.

The only general way to avoid this problem is for the SELECT statement to use Serializable isolation. This prevents a concurrent INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE operation. There is no reliable way to avoid this problem with INSERT or DELETE by forcing the use of an index because these operations affect all indexes. With UPDATE, this problem can be avoided by forcing the SELECT statement to use an index that is not being updated.

For more information about serializable isolation, see "Concurrency control through isolation and locking" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Cannot attach PL/SQL shared memory

The PLSQL_MEMORY_ADDRESS first connection attribute determines the virtual address at which the PL/SQL shared memory segment is loaded into each process that uses the TimesTen direct drivers. Since each operating system platform has different mappings for its address space, the default values for the PL/SQL address space defined in the PLSQL_MEMORY_ADDRESS connection attribute are different for each platform, which avoids conflict with operating system mapped address space.

However, if your application overlaps with the PL/SQL mapped address space, you may receive error 8517 "Cannot attach PL/SQL shared memory; PLSQL_MEMORY_ADDRESS not valid or already in use." In this case, modify the setting for the PLSQL_MEMORY_ADDRESS connection attribute to eliminate the overlap. The reasons for receiving error 8517 can be one of the following:

User allocated memory already uses that address.

Some shared memory already uses that address.

A shared library already uses that address.

To recover, specify a virtual address that is free for all processes that may connect to the database. If you have a 32-bit program that allocates large amounts of memory before connecting to TimesTen, it may clash with the PL/SQL shared memory segment. In this case, either allocate memory after connecting to TimesTen or use a 64-bit application. In a 64-bit environment, the options for reassigning to another memory address are less complicated than for a 32-bit operating system, where options are limited and potential for overlap is more common.

If an application accesses two or more TimesTen databases at the same time, you must modify the default setting for the PLSQL_MEMORY_ADDRESS attribute in all but one of the TimesTen databases, since the default settings would map the PL/SQL memory address to the same address for all TimesTen databases.

3 Troubleshooting TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache 

The following sections in this chapter describe how to troubleshoot problems you may encounter when using TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache (TimesTen Cache):

Unable to create a cache group

Unable to start or stop the cache agent

Recovering cache grid after unexpected system shutdown

Unable to resolve Oracle Service Name

Unable to resolve connect identifier

Incompatible Oracle Database Server and Client versions

Unable to validate the Oracle database username and password

OCI initialization failed

Unsupported data type mapping

Null constraint does not match Oracle Database

DDL on cached Oracle database tables may cause cache group operations to fail

Changes not visible after updating object in cache group

Loading or refreshing fails

Monitoring autorefresh cache groups

Optimize performance for TimesTen Cache

Avoid performance and memory problems for large batch jobs on Oracle database tables

Autorefresh not refreshing cache at the specified interval

Incremental autorefresh not progressing

Incremental autorefresh becomes full autorefresh

Poor autorefresh performance

Declaring NOVALIDATE on constraints causes cache group creation failure

AWR report showing lock contention with DBMS_LOCK

If you are having problems with an AWT cache group, see Chapter 5, "Troubleshooting AWT Cache Groups".

Note:

Error log messages from the cache agent daemon are designated by CAC in the message, as shown in several examples in this chapter. These messages are enabled unless you disable the CACHE component of the ttDaemonLog utility. See "ttDaemonLog" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference for information about ttDaemonLog options for Windows and UNIX.

Unable to create a cache group

This section describes problems you might encounter when executing the CREATE CACHE GROUP statement.

Possible cause
What to do

User does not have the correct Oracle database privileges to create the cache group type.
See "Check the Oracle database privileges".

User has insufficient access to the database.
You must have CACHE_MANAGER privilege to create a cache group.

The internal/external user does not match the Oracle database user.
The TimesTen user name must be the same as the Oracle database user name.

Cannot connect to the Oracle database.
See:

"Unable to resolve Oracle Service Name"

"Unable to resolve connect identifier"

"Unable to validate the Oracle database username and password"

"Incompatible Oracle Database Server and Client versions"

Check whether Oracle Database must be restarted.

Check the network status.

Cache administration user ID or password is not set (when trying to create AWT or autorefresh cache groups).
See "Set the cache administration user name and password".

Data type mapping is unsupported.
See "Unsupported data type mapping".

Nullability setting in the Oracle database is different.
See "Null constraint does not match Oracle Database".

Primary key in root table is not specified.
The root table of a cache group must have a primary key. See "Defining Cache Groups" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide.

Unable to start or stop the cache agent

This section describes problems you might encounter when starting or stopping the cache agent.

Possible cause
What to do

Cache agent is already running.
See "Check status of the cache agent", below.

Cannot locate Oracle Database libraries.

See "Check status of TNS listener and Oracle Database Server".

Check the permissions on the libraries.

ORACLE_HOME is invalid.
See "Check ORACLE_HOME environment variable", below.

Privileges are insufficient.
You must have CACHE_MANAGER privilege to start or stop the cache agent.

OracleNetServiceName is incorrect.
Ensure that the OracleNetServiceName set in your DSN definition matches the Oracle Service Name for the Oracle Database instance that contains the tables to cache in TimesTen.

Check status of the cache agent

Check the status of the cache agent by using the ttStatus utility as described in "Using the ttStatus utility" to check the status of the cache agent.

If the cache agent is not running, start it as described in "Starting the cache agent" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide. If attempts to start the cache agent fail, then investigate the possible causes and restart the system before attempting to start the cache agent.

Check ORACLE_HOME environment variable

On UNIX or Linux platforms, check that the ORACLE_HOME environment variable is set correctly for the shell from which you are starting the cache agent and the TimesTen daemon. Use the ttmodinstall utility if you need to change the setting for ORACLE_HOME.

See "Environment variables" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide.

Check NLS environment variables

NLS environment variables are set in the environment where the TimesTen application is running. Check to see if TimesTen is using the NLS environment variables.

Recovering cache grid after unexpected system shutdown

The server may experience a system failure or an unexpected restart, such as with a power outage. In this case, the cache grid exits unexpectedly without the normal shutdown procedure.

The following sections describe how to recover when the system unexpectedly shuts down for two scenarios:

A portion of the cache grid nodes are still running

All cache grid nodes exited unexpectedly

A portion of the cache grid nodes are still running

When the server shuts down, some cache grid nodes exited unexpectedly, but others are still active. In this case, you must detach the dead nodes first by executing ttGridDetachList from an attached node, as follows.

Connect to a surviving grid node and execute ttGridDetachList to force a detach of all dead nodes from the grid.

Connect to the databases on the restarted server. Start the replication agent by executing ttRepStart.

Attach the cache grid nodes by executing ttGridAttach.

Resume normal database operations.

All cache grid nodes exited unexpectedly

If all cache grid nodes exited unexpectedly when the server shut down, perform the following tasks to recover the cache grid:

Log on to each grid node by connecting to the databases on the restarted server. Start the replication agent by executing ttRepStart. The replication agent will flush the existing log, even if the log is current.

Call ttGridAttach on each node, which will fail with a communication error because it cannot communicate with other members. The failed attach cleans up the node information.

The last node on which you execute the ttGridAttach should succeed. At this point you have cleaned up all nodes, so execute ttGridAttach on all nodes again to attach each node to the grid.

Resume normal database operations.

Unable to resolve Oracle Service Name

If you receive error ORA-12514 indicating "could not resolve service name":

Use the Oracle Database TNSPING utility to verify that the service can be reached.

Ensure that the OracleNetServiceName set in your DSN definition matches the Oracle Service Name for the Oracle Database instance that contains the tables to cache in TimesTen.

Ensure that there is a service name defined. If it is a Windows Oracle client, use Oracle Net Configuration Assistant to configure a service name. In Oracle Net Configuration Assistant, navigate to Oracle Net Configuration -> Local -> Service Naming, select your Oracle Database server and confirm that there is a service name or a SID that identifies the Oracle Database server. If you add or modify a service name, you may need to restart.

Check the cache administration user name and password on the Oracle database with SQL*Plus to make sure this service name works. For example:

%sqlplus cache_admin_user/cache_admin_pwd@OracleHost

cache_admin_user is the cache administration user name, cache_admin_pwd is the cache administration user password, and OracleHost is the OracleNetServiceName specified in your DSN definition.

Note:

Your cache administration user may be different from your regular Oracle database user. See "Create the Oracle database users" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide.

Ensure that there is only one copy of tnsnames.ora on your TimesTen system. Also check the permission on tnsnames.ora.

If you run TimesTen on a UNIX system, check that the ORACLE_HOME environment variable is correctly defined. For example:

ORACLE_HOME=/products/oracle11g

Check the Oracle Database client and server versions. See "Incompatible Oracle Database Server and Client versions", following shortly.

Unable to resolve connect identifier

You may receive ORA-12154 "TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified" when you try to connect to a a database.

This can occur when you are trying to use TimesTen Cache and Oracle Database on the same system and the TNS_ADMIN environment variable does not point to the proper tnsnames.ora file for Oracle Database. For example, you may have several instances of the Oracle Database running on a laptop.

In a production environment, you typically have TimesTen and Oracle Database running on different systems. In this case, do not reset the TNS_ADMIN environment variable to point to a tnsnames.ora file on the system where TimesTen is running. The Oracle Database client uses the TNS_ADMIN setting to resolve the connection, but the TimesTen main daemon, the cache agent, the Web server, and the replication agent are unaware of the TNS_ADMIN setting. TimesTen Cache cannot operate properly when the Oracle Database client and TimesTen use different tnsnames.ora files.

On Windows, set the TNS_ADMIN environment variable as follows:

Right-click My Computer and choose Properties.

On the Advanced tab, choose Environment Variables.

Add or edit TNS_ADMIN as a system environment variable so that it points to the directory that contains the tnsnames.ora file that you want to use. You can include other tnsnames.ora files with the INAME command inside the tnsnames.ora file.

Incompatible Oracle Database Server and Client versions

If you receive connection timeout errors such as ORA-12170 or ORA-12535, or if you receive ORA-03134 (server version not supported), verify that you are using an Oracle Database client and Oracle Database server whose versions are compatible.

Metalink Documentation Note 207303.1, "Client/Server/Interoperability Support Between Different Oracle Versions", lists the client/server combinations supported by Oracle.

See Oracle Database and TimesTen release notes for known problems with client/server versions.

Unable to validate the Oracle database username and password

This section describes problems you might encounter when using the Oracle database username and password.

Possible cause
See...

The library environment variable is not set correctly.
"Check library path environment variable", below

Oracle Database processes are not running.
"Check status of TNS listener and Oracle Database Server", below

User does not have the correct Oracle database privileges.
"Check the Oracle database privileges", below

DSN is incorrectly configured.
"Check DSN definition"

There are problems with cache administration user ID or password.
"Set the cache administration user name and password"

User and system environments are inconsistent.
"Check user and system environment"

Dynamic libraries are not loading.
"Verify the loaded dynamic libraries"

Check library path environment variable

Check the library path environment variable on your platform.

On this platform... | Check this variable...
UNIX | LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Windows | PATH

The library path environment variable must include the following information:

TimesTen and platform bit combination | Setting
64-bit TimesTen or 32-bit TimesTen on 32-bit platform | $ORACLE_HOME/LIB and $ORACLE_HOME/NETWORK/LIB
32-bit TimesTen on 64-bit platform | $ORACLE_HOME/LIB32 and $ORACLE_HOME/NETWORK/LIB32

Check status of TNS listener and Oracle Database Server

Try to connect to the Oracle database by using SQL*Plus or use Oracle Enterprise Manager to verify the status.

Check the Oracle database privileges

From an Oracle SQL*Plus command prompt, list the current Oracle database privileges granted to you by entering:

SELECT * FROM SESSION_ROLES;
SELECT * FROM SESSION_PRIVS;

Compare the privileges listed against the required privileges for the various TimesTen Cache operations that are specified in "Grant privileges to the Oracle database users" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide. Contact your Oracle Database Administrator if you require additional privileges.

Check DSN definition

Confirm you have correctly set the DSN attributes, such as in the example "DSN for a TimesTen database that caches data from an Oracle database" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide.

Confirm that the DSN definition for TimesTen Cache is a system DSN.

Confirm that the DSN for TimesTen Cache is defined only once.

Confirm the Oracle database user name and password. Use SQLPlus and connect to the Oracle database using the same OracleNetServiceName and OraclePWD used in your DSN definition to confirm they are correct.

Reboot TimesTen machine

If the Oracle Database client was installed and the system has not been restarted, then the TimesTen daemon is still running under the "old" environment before the Oracle Database client install. Restart your system so the TimesTen can start under the "new" environment.

Set the cache administration user name and password

The cache administration user name and password must be set only once in a TimesTen database. However, they must be changed if the TimesTen database is destroyed and recreated or if the cache administration user name is dropped and recreated in the Oracle database.

The cache administration user name and password cannot be changed if the cache agent is running on the TimesTen database or there are cache groups in the database. The cache groups must be dropped before you can change the cache administration user name and password. You must also stop the cache agent before you change the cache administration user name and password, and then restart the cache agent after the user name and password have been changed.

From a ttIsql session, connect to the database as the cache manager user and call the ttCacheUidPwdSet built-in procedure to set the Oracle database cache administration user name and password, as follows:

Command> call ttCacheUidPwdSet('cacheuser','oracle');

If it returns an error, check the Oracle Database ID, the cache administration user ID and cache administration password. In addition, check whether the Oracle Database instance is running.

You can also set the user name and password by executing the ttAdmin -cacheUidPwdSet utility command as a TimesTen external user with the CACHE_MANAGER privilege:

% ttAdmin -cacheUidPwdSet -cacheUid cacheuser -cachePwd oracle cachealone1

If you do not specify the -cachePwd option, the ttAdmin utility prompts for the cache administration user's password. For more information about the utility, see "ttAdmin" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Check user and system environment

Test to see if the problem is due to differences in user and system environment. This procedure requires two session windows (Command Prompt windows in Windows or shell windows in UNIX).

Stop the TimesTen daemon.

In one session window, start the Timesten daemon as a regular user.

On Windows:

% install_dir/srv/ttsrv1122.exe -d -verbose

On UNIX:

% install_dir/srv/timestend -d verbose

Some messages will flash by, and then it goes into a wait state.

In another session window, try to restart the cache agent.

If Step 3 succeeds, then use Ctrl-C on Windows or the kill command on UNIX to stop the TimesTen daemon you started for the other session in Step 2.

Compare the user environment and system environment. For example, do both user and system see the same copy of oci.dll? Are there any differences in the path name to the oci.dll library between the user and system environments?

If you detect differences, make the necessary modifications.

Restart the system and restart the TimesTen daemon.

Verify the loaded dynamic libraries

If you run on a Windows system with Visual C++ installed, verify the loaded dynamic libraries. This works only if you can start the cache agent without autorefresh:

Make sure TimesTen is started.

Start the cache agent without autorefresh.

Command> call ttCacheStart;
Command> create cache group cg1 from t1(c1 int not null primary key);

Open the Windows Task Manager, find process ttora1122.exe and highlight it. Right-click on it and select Debug. This brings you into Visual C++ and you should see the loaded DLL in the debug window, as described in "Unable to resolve Oracle Service Name".

Load the cache group to force an cache connection from the cache agent:

Command> load cache group cg1 commit every 100 rows;

Compare the loaded DLL in your debug window with the partial list shown in Example 3-1.

Example 3-1 List of loaded dlls

This partial list was created with the Oracle Database client.

Loaded 'E:\TimesTen\tt1121_32\bin\timestenorad1121.exe', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\kernel32.dll', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'E:\TimesTen\tt1121_32\bin\tten1121.dll', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'E:\TimesTen\tt1121_32\bin\ttcommon1121.dll', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wsock32.dll', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ws2_32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\msvcrt.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ws2help.dll', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\advapi32.dll', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\rpcrt4.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
...

OCI initialization failed

Error 5105, "OCI initialization failed," may occur when an operation requires contact with the Oracle database. For example, the error might occur in the following situations:

Starting the cache agent

Setting the cache administration user ID or password

Entering a SQL statement in TimesTen when autocommit=0 and PassThrough=3

Error 5105 contains additional information about its cause:

OCI cannot find an Oracle database library. See "Check library path environment variable" and check the permissions on the library specified in the error message.

ORACLE_HOME is invalid. See "Check ORACLE_HOME environment variable".

NLS environment variables are set in the environment where the TimesTen application is running. Check to see if TimesTen is using the NLS environment variables.

Unsupported data type mapping

When you try to create a cache group, you may receive the following error:

5115: Unsupported type mapping for column name

For example, table tab on the Oracle database can be described as follows:

COL1     NUMBER(38) NOT NULL
COL2     NUMBER(38)

Try to create the cache group as follows:

CREATE CACHE GROUP cg FROM tab(col1 CHAR(10) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY);

Error 5119 is displayed and the cache group is not created because the statement attempts to map a column of NUMBER data type to a column of CHAR data type.

See "Data type mappings allowed for key columns" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide.

Null constraint does not match Oracle Database

When you try to create a cache group, you may receive the following warning:

Warning 5119: Column name has different nullability setting in Oracle

For example, table tab on the Oracle database can be described as follows:

COL1     NUMBER(38) NOT NULL
COL2     NUMBER(38)

Try to create the cache group as follows:

CREATE CACHE GROUP cg
    FROM tab(col1 INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, col2 INTEGER NOT NULL);

Warning 5119 is displayed because col2 on the Oracle database does not have a NULL constraint, but col2 in the cache group is defined as NOT NULL.

DDL on cached Oracle database tables may cause cache group operations to fail

DDL operations that are performed on an Oracle database table that is being cached in TimesTen may cause a failure on the cache group. For example, the user drops a column on the Oracle database table that is being cached in TimesTen. When the cache group is propagated or flushed, TimesTen will update the column that no longer exists in the Oracle database table. When the cache group loads or refreshes, then TimesTen attempts to retrieve data from the column that has been dropped.

The following cache group operations may fail:

Autorefresh does not occur.

AWT cache group operations are not propagated or refreshed to or from the Oracle database.

Cache group load or propagate fails.

If you suspect the cache group operations are not working properly because of a DDL operation on the Oracle database base table, then use DDL tracking to diagnose the issue. DDL tracking saves the change history for all the cached Oracle database tables. The SQL statement and when it was executed are each written to a TimesTen table in the cache administrator user schema on the Oracle database.

For more information on how to create the DDL tracking objects and how to enable DDL tracking for the base table within the Oracle database, see "Tracking DDL statements issued on cached Oracle Database tables" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide. For details on the built-in procedure used for enabling or disabling DDL tracking, see "ttCacheDDLTrackingConfig" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Changes not visible after updating object in cache group

If you modify an object in a cache group and then the changes do not appear on a subsequent SQL statement, then one of the following may have occurred:

The object was dropped from the Oracle database or was somehow damaged.

Oracle database was restored or recovered to a time before the object was created.

The Oracle database was down.

The user modified the OracleNetServiceName DSN or connection attribute after creating the cache group, which points to an Oracle database other than the one that the cache group was created upon.

For example, if the user creates an AWT cache group. Then, the user added rows to a table. When the user performs a SELECT * FROM the table, the rows did not appear. The ttmesg.log error file does not display an error that the Oracle database is not available. Instead, it displays the following messages:

12:09:02.10 Err : REP: 29934: CACHE1:meta.c(904): TT5221: TT5221: Oracle syntax
error in OCIStmtExecute(): ORA-00942: table or view does not exist rc = -1 --
file "bdbStmt.c", lineno 1535, procedure "getOraOutTypesNLengths()"
12:09:02.27 Err : REP: 29934: CACHE1:receiver.c(1978): TT5250: Awt Initialization
Failure. Could not compile meta data sql.
12:09:02.27 Warn: REP: 29934: CACHE1:transmitter.c(6505): TT16060: Failed to read
data from the network. select() timed out

To recover, perform the following:

Stop all updates to the cache group.

If you are using an AWT cache group, then flush the cache group.

Recreate the cache group with the drop and create.

Loading or refreshing fails

If the LOAD CACHE GROUP or REFRESH CACHE GROUP statement fails when you specify COMMIT EVERY n ROWS and n is greater than 0, the contents of the target cache group could be in an inconsistent state. Some cache instances may be partially loaded.

Unload the cache group and then load it again. In some situations, it may be easier to drop and recreate the cache group.

Monitoring autorefresh cache groups

This section includes the following topics:

Using the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure

Displaying information from the change log tables

Understanding messages about autorefresh in the support log

Diagnosing autorefresh failure

Diagnosing autorefresh performance problems

Using SNMP traps for alerts about autorefresh problems

Using the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure

The ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure returns information about the last ten autorefresh operations on a specified cache group.

The ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure returns information only when the cache agent is running and the autorefresh state is ON or PAUSED. All of the return fields are set to 0 when the cache agent is restarted or the autorefresh state is changed to OFF.

Example 3-2 Calling ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet

This example uses testcache, which is a READONLY cache group with one table and an incremental autorefresh interval of 10 seconds.

Command> call ttcacheautorefreshstatsget('user1','testcache');

< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:43:52.000000, 850280, 44, 0, 75464, 528255, 75464, 310, 110, 6800,
1890912, 12439795, 1890912, 160020, InProgress >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:43:33.000000, 831700, 43, 13550, 108544, 759808, 108544, 1030, 230,
12290, 1815448, 11911540, 1815448, 160020, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:43:12.000000, 810230, 42, 17040, 115712, 809984, 115712, 610, 330,
16090, 1706904, 11151732, 1706904, 146470, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:42:52.000000, 790190, 41, 14300, 94208, 659456, 94208,560, 320,
13410, 1591192, 10341748, 1591192, 129430, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:42:32.000000, 770180, 40, 12080, 99328, 695296, 99328,450, 290,
11340, 1496984, 9682292, 1496984, 115130, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:42:12.000000, 750130, 39, 10380, 86016, 598368, 86016,430, 230,
9720, 1397656, 8986996, 1397656, 103050, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:41:52.000000, 730130, 38, 13530, 112640, 700768, 112640, 530, 220,
12780, 1311640, 8388628, 1311640, 92670, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:41:32.000000, 710120, 37, 9370, 56320, 326810, 56320, 310, 160,
8900, 1199000, 7687860, 1199000, 79140, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:41:22.000000, 700120, 36, 2120, 10240, 50330, 10240, 50, 200, 1870,
1142680, 7361050, 1142680, 69770, Complete >
< 1164260, 2007-07-23 15:41:12.000000, 690110, 35, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1132440, 7310720,
1132440, 67650, Complete >
10 rows found.

Table 3-1 describes the results from the first row of output.

Table 3-1 ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet results from last autorefresh operation

Result
Field name
Description

1164260

cgId

Cache group ID

2007-07-23 15:43:52.000000

startTimestamp

Timestamp when autorefresh started for this interval

850280

cacheAgentUpTime

Number of cache agent clock ticks in milliseconds at the time the autorefresh transaction started for this interval

This value is cumulative and is reset when the cache agent process starts.

44

autorefNumber

Autorefresh number

0

autorefDuration

Number of milliseconds spent in this autorefresh operation

It is zero because the operation is in progress.

75464

autorefNumRows

Number of rows autorefreshed in this autorefresh operation

This would include all rows in the root table and child tables if the cache group had child tables.

Note: This information is not provided for full autorefresh.

528255

numOracleBytes

Number of bytes transferred from the Oracle database in this autorefresh operation

Note: This information is not provided for full autorefresh.

75464

autorefNumRootTblRows

Number of root table rows autorefreshed in this autorefresh operation

310

autorefQueryExecDuration

Duration in milliseconds for the autorefresh query to execute on the Oracle database

Note: This information is not provided for full autorefresh.

110

autorefQueryFetchDuration

Duration in milliseconds for the autorefresh query to fetch rows from the Oracle database

Note: This information is not provided for full autorefresh.

6800

autorefTtApplyDuration

Duration in milliseconds for TimesTen to apply the updated rows to the cache group

Note: This information is not provided for full autorefresh.

1890912

totalNumRows

Total number of rows autorefreshed since the cache agent started

Note: This information is not provided for full autorefresh.

12439795

totalNumOracleBytes

The total number of bytes transferred from the Oracle database since the cache agent started

Note: This information is not provided for full autorefresh.

1890912

totalNumRootTblRows

Total number of root table rows autorefreshed since the cache agent started

160020

totalDuration

Total autorefresh duration in milliseconds since the cache agent started

InProgress

autorefreshStatus

Status

Status can also be Complete or Failed.

Note that the total number of autorefreshed rows (1890912) is the same as the total number of autorefreshed root table rows in this example because there are no child tables.

The number of autorefreshed rows in TimesTen does not necessarily reflect the number of rows updated on the Oracle database. The Oracle database updates may be applied in TimesTen more than once, or multiple Oracle database updates on the same row may be applied as one update in TimesTen.

Displaying information from the change log tables

TimesTen provides the cacheInfo SQL script that gathers information from the change log tables that exist on the Oracle database for autorefresh cache groups. See "Managing a caching environment with Oracle Database objects" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide for additional information about change log tables.

Run the script as the cache administration user on the Oracle database using SQL*Plus. If you run the script as a different user, it reports that the change log tables do not exist.

The script is in the following location:

install_dir/oraclescripts/cacheInfo.sql

The cacheInfo script displays the following information for each cached table:

% cd TimesTen_install_dir/oraclescripts
% sqlplus cacheuser/oracle
SQL> @cacheInfo
*************Autorefresh Objects Information ***************
Host name: sys1
Timesten datastore name: /users/OracleCache/alone1
Cache table name: ORATT.ORDERS
Change log table name: tt_06_69245_L
Number of rows in change log table: 100000
Maximum logseq on the change log table: 38
Timesten has autorefreshed updates up to logseq: 38
Number of updates waiting to be autorefreshed: 0
Number of updates that has not been marked with a valid logseq: 0
****************************

The information returned for each change log table includes the name of the change log table, the name of its corresponding TimesTen cache table, the number of rows in the change log table, and the number of updates in the change log table that have not been automatically refreshed into the cache table.

The log sequence number (logseq) acts as a marker for the autorefresh operation.

Understanding messages about autorefresh in the support log

The support log contains messages that show the progress of autorefresh. For example, testcache is a readonly cache group with an autorefresh interval of 10 seconds (10,000 milliseconds).

The support log shows when autorefresh starts:

15:43:33.96 Info: CAC: 5264: TT47118-5264-5676-refresh03918: Starting autorefresh
number 43 for interval 10000ms

The message includes the following information:

Message number: TT47118

Timestamp (15:43:33.96)

Cache agent process ID (5264)

Thread ID (5676)

You can look up the message number in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps. For example, in the log message above, TT47118 is error message number 47118.

The thread ID is important because autorefresh numbers are unique only for a specific interval. Always check both the thread ID and the autorefresh number when you are tracking a specific autorefresh operation.

The support log also contains a longer message that reports information similar to the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure. 108544 rows were updated in this autorefresh interval, and 1815448 rows have been updated since the cache agent was started. Note that the total number of rows and the total number of root table rows are the same in this message because there is only one table in the cache group. Number refers to the autorefresh number. All times are expressed in milliseconds.

15:43:51.81 Info: CAC: 5264: TT47087-5264-5676-refresh04387: Cache agent
refreshed cache group USER1.TESTCACHE: Number - 43, Duration - 13550, NumRows -
108544, NumRootTblRows - 108544, NumOracleBytes - 759808, queryExecDuration -
230, queryFetchDuration - 1030, ttApplyDuration - 12290, totalNumRows - 1815448,
totalNumRootTblRows - 1815448, totalNumOracleBytes - 11911540, totalDuration -
160020

Additional messages show that the autorefresh operation completes successfully:

15:43:51.81 Info: CAC: 5264: TT47119-5264-5676-refresh04449: Autorefresh
number 43 finished for interval 10000ms successfully
15:43:51.81 Info: CAC: 5264: TT47119-5264-5676-fresher01619: Autorefresh number
43 succeeded for interval 10000 milliseconds

Inspect the timestamps to determine whether autorefresh is progressing as expected.

See "Managing TimesTen daemon options" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide for information about setting the support log location.

Diagnosing autorefresh failure

If ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet shows that the status of an autorefresh operation is Failed, check the support log for messages related to the autorefresh operation with number the number shown in the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet output. Look for errors that occurred after the autorefresh operation started.

Example 3-3 ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet output shows autorefresh failure

This row of output from ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet shows a failed autorefresh operation.

< 1164260, 2007-08-01 14:56:36.000000, 959350, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 7,
 1, 50, Failed >

The autorefresh number is 9.

The support log shows the start message for autorefresh number 9:

14:56:36.10 Info: CAC: 5988: TT47118-5988-4724-refresh03926: Starting
autorefresh number 9 for interval 15000ms

The thread ID for autorefresh number 9 is 4724. Look for error messages with this thread ID.

The following messages appear in the support log:

14:56:36.10 Info: CAC: 5988: TT47117-5988-4724-refresh03953: Autorefresh thread
for interval 15000ms is connected to instance inst1 on host host1. Server handle
231976252
14:56:36.12 Err : CAC: 5988: TT40018-5988-4724-refresh07567: TimesTen error
code:5901, msg The Oracle refresh log table, "USER2"."TT_06_81799_L", for base
table, USER2.READTAB2, cannot be found.
14:56:36.12 Info: CAC: 5988: TT47055-5988-4724-refresh05559: Autorefresh rolled
back.
14:56:36.12 Info: CAC: 5988: TT47119-5988-4724-refresh04458: Autorefresh number
9 finished for interval 15000ms with error.
14:56:36.12 Err : CAC: 5988: TT40035-5988-4724-fresher01606: Autorefresh number
9 failed for cache groups with interval 15000 ms after 10 retries.

The error message for thread ID 4724 shows that the change log table, TT_06_81799_L, is missing. The introduction to "Autorefresh not refreshing cache at the specified interval" has a table entry that describes what to do in this situation.

Diagnosing autorefresh performance problems

You can use the ttTraceMon utility to diagnose autorefresh performance problems. See "AUTOREFRESH tracing".

TimesTen tracing severely impacts application performance and consumes a great deal of disk space if trace output is directed to a file. When you are finished, reset tracing to the default values.

Using SNMP traps for alerts about autorefresh problems

Enable SNMP traps to alert you when autorefresh problems occur. The SNMP traps related to autorefresh include the following.

ttCacheAutoRefQueFullTrap

ttCacheIncAutoRefFailedTrap

ttCacheValidationErrorTrap

ttCacheValidationWarnTrap

ttCacheValidationAbortedTrap

See "Diagnostics through SNMP Traps" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps.

Optimize performance for TimesTen Cache

The following recommendations may optimize performance for the TimesTen Cache:

Note:

Each of these suggestions involve performance tradeoffs, which may not always be beneficial for optimal use. Consider and test each performance suggestion for your own configured environment.

Pin the TimesTen Cache meta tables and cache group base tables in the SGA. by executing the ALTER TABLE table_name CACHE statement to indicate to the Oracle database that these tables should be stored in the keep portion of the SGA buffer cache. Pinning TimesTen Cache tables in the SGA increases the probability that any given data block needed for a TimesTen Cache refresh operation will be available in the SGA when the refresh is performed and will not force a disk read. This minimizes physical disk reads executed during TimesTen cache refresh operations.

Pin TimesTen Cache triggers into the shared pool using the dbms_shared_pool.keep procedure. Pinning triggers into the shared pool for applications where updates to the cache group base tables are infrequent keeps the trigger from having to be reloaded and reparsed. This is not necessary for highly volatile tables where the trigger will be executed frequently and will remain in the shared pool under any circumstances.

Enable parallel query. For very large base tables with 10 million rows or more, consider using the Oracle database parallel query facility. The primary join query between the log table and the base table is the kind of query which the Oracle database parallel query is designed to handle. When parallel processing is enabled, the parallel query optimizer generates a query plan that enables the original query to be broken into sections to be worked concurrently by different parallel query slave processes. When using parallel query, users should assign a default degree of parallelism of (2*N) to the cache group base table, where "N" is the number of CPUs on the system. Then, experiment to understand what level of parallelism works best for their environment. Experiment with different table structures for base tables, as follows.

Use a standard heap table with default degree of parallelism assigned during table creation or by use of the ALTER TABLE PARALLEL command. Build an N-partition primary key index against the table.

Use an N-way partitioned table structure with partition range key based either on the table primary key or, in the case of a concatenated primary key, the high-order column of the primary key. The number of partitions should be set to the degree of parallelism. Use a local primary key index with the same number of partitions.

Use an N-way hashed partition structure using the primary key as the hash key, a local partitioned primary key index, and both index and table partitions equal to the degree of parallelism. The log table should not be partitioned, as the cardinalities of the log table should never be large enough that a partitioned log table would have any performance benefit. Further, given the continuously increasing value of the log table primary key column, range partitions cannot be used.

Avoid performance and memory problems for large batch jobs on Oracle database tables

Customers sometimes run large batch jobs at month-end or year-end on the Oracle database tables that are cached in read-only cache groups with incremental autorefresh. This can cause performance and memory problems for autorefresh operations and replication unless preventative steps are taken.

The tasks described in this section are supported for these components in an TimesTen Cache configuration:

Read-only cache groups that are not in a cache grid and are not replicated by an active standby pair

Cache grid

Active standby pair replication

Active standby pair with a return service specified

Active standby pair with a disaster recovery subscriber

Physical, synchronous Oracle Data Guard

Oracle RAC

Perform these tasks when large batch jobs must be run on the cached Oracle database tables:

Set the autorefresh state to PAUSED for cache groups with the AUTOREFRESH attribute that are affected by the batch job. Perform this task on each standalone cache grid node and on the active node of an active standby pair grid member. For example:

ALTER CACHE GROUP sampecg SET AUTOREFRESH STATE PAUSED;
COMMIT;

Set the autorefresh state to PAUSED for cache groups with the AUTOREFRESH attribute that are not directly affected by the batch job. This ensures that there is a consistent view of the data during batch processing. Perform this task on each standalone cache grid node and on the active node of an active standby pair grid member.

Run the batch job on the cached Oracle database tables.

Make sure all autorefresh change log records have been assigned a valid log sequence number (logseq). Call the cacheInfo.sql script:

% cd TimesTen_install_dir/oraclescripts
% sqlplus cacheuser/oracle
SQL> @cacheInfo

Look for the number of updates that have not been marked with a valid log sequence number. Ideally, the number should be zero or small (less than 100) for all tables in cache groups for which the autorefresh state was paused. Consider the following example.

*************Autorefresh Objects Information  ***************
Host name: host1
Timesten datastore name: /scratch/ttuser/ds/mydsn
Cache table name: TTUSER.NOTAFFECTED
Change log table name: tt_05_460491_L
Number of rows in change log table: 1
Maximum logseq on the change log table: 1
Timesten has autorefreshed updates up to logseq: 1
Number of updates waiting to be autorefreshed: 0
Number of updates that has not been marked with a valid logseq: 0
****************************
Host name: host2
Timesten datastore name: /scratch/ttuser/ds/mydsn
Cache table name: TTUSER.AFFECTED
Change log table name: tt_05_460489_L
Number of rows in change log table: 100
Maximum logseq on the change log table: 213
Timesten has autorefreshed updates up to logseq: 213
Number of updates waiting to be autorefreshed: 10000
Number of updates that has not been marked with a valid logseq: 0
****************************

If the configuration includes active standby pair grid members, verify that the standby state is set to PAUSED on all standby nodes. Use the ttIsql cachegroups command.

For each cache group that was altered in step 1, manually refresh the cache group in parallel mode. Select appropriate values for the transaction size (number of rows committed at a time) and degree of parallelism. Perform this task on each standalone cache grid node and on the active node of an active standby pair grid member. For example:

REFRESH CACHE GROUP samplecg
 COMMIT EVERY n ROWS PARALLEL m;
COMMIT;

Note that this operation automatically resets the autorefresh state to ON.

For each cache group that was altered in step 2, set the autorefresh state to ON. Perform this task on each standalone cache grid node and on the active node of an active standby pair grid member. For example:

ALTER CACHE GROUP sampecg2 SET AUTOREFRESH ON;
COMMIT;

It is good practice to periodically coalesce the indexes on the autorefresh log tables. See "ALTER INDEX" in Oracle Database SQL Language Reference.

Autorefresh not refreshing cache at the specified interval

The following table shows possible causes for autorefresh problems.

Possible cause
What to do

Cache agent is not started with a cache administration user.
Specify a cache administration user ID and password when starting the cache agent, as shown in "Starting the cache agent" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide. Also see "ttCacheStart" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference and "Set the cache administration user name and password" in Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide.

Object ID of the base table has changed.
See "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

Autorefresh trigger not enabled.
See "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

Current log sequence number recorded in the TT_version_USER_COUNT table is less than to the maximum log sequence number in the autorefresh log table.
See "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

There is no row in the TT_version_USER_COUNT table with usercount > 0 for every active incremental autorefresh table.
See "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

Change log table is empty.
See "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

User count is less than 0 or any TT_version_USER_COUNT log sequence anomalies.
See "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

Autorefresh log table, trigger, or sequence associated with a cached table does not exist or is not valid.
Check whether the cache agent was started with the correct cache administration user ID. If the cache administration user ID is correct, follow the procedure described in "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

Check the user error log for messages about "fatal anomalies". This indicates corrupt or missing Oracle database objects.

TT_version_USER_COUNT table is missing.
Check whether the cache agent was started with the correct cache administration user ID. If the cache administration user ID is correct, follow the procedure in "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

Check the user error log for messages about "fatal anomalies". This indicates corrupt or missing Oracle database objects.

Current log sequence number in the TT_version_USER_COUNT table changes and is different from the bookmark, and the associated cached table is not refreshed by the next committed autorefresh.
Restart the cache agent. If that does not work, follow the procedure in "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects", below.

If autorefresh occurs at the same time you alter the autorefresh mode, state, or interval, you may potentially cause a lock timeout as both actions modify the same table.
Stop the cache agent before altering the autorefresh mode, state, or interval. See "Avoid a lock timeout condition when modifying autorefresh mode, state, or interval".

There is a resource problem.
Restart the cache agent.

Reset autorefresh state

Incremental autorefresh does not work if the TRUNCATE statement is used on an Oracle database base table. If TRUNCATE is used on an Oracle database base table, then you must reset autorefresh by using the ALTER CACHE GROUP statement to set the autorefresh state to OFF followed by another ALTER CACHE GROUP to reset the autorefresh state to ON.

Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects

If you know or suspect the Oracle database objects used by autorefresh are the cause of the problem, use the following procedure to recreate the Oracle database objects.

Use ALTER CACHE GROUP to reset the autorefresh state to OFF on all cache groups on all databases that have the affected cached table:

ALTER CACHE GROUP cache_group_name SET AUTOREFRESH STATE OFF;

Shut down all cache agents on all affected databases.

Check if the user count is zero for each table in the cache group.

On the Oracle database, execute the following statement:

SELECT usercount FROM autorefresh_id.tt_version_user_count
    WHERE tablename ='owner.tablename';

If the count is not zero, set the count to zero:

UPDATE autorefresh_id.tt_version_user_count SET usercount = 0
    WHERE tablename ='owner.tablename';

Start one of the cache agents. The cache agent performs a clean up operation. It displays the following message to the support log after it has completed the cleanup:

Cleanup of the Oracle objects completed

After the cache agent has completed the clean up, use ALTER CACHE GROUP to reset the autorefresh state back to ON:

ALTER CACHE GROUP cache_group_name SET AUTOREFRESH STATE ON;

Start all other cache agents.

Use ALTER CACHE GROUP to reset the autorefresh state back to ON for all of the affected cache groups on all databases.

Avoid a lock timeout condition when modifying autorefresh mode, state, or interval

A lock timeout may occur if you modify the autorefresh mode, state, or interval with the ALTER CACHE GROUP statement at the same time when a scheduled autorefresh starts (scheduled because of the autorefresh interval).

Autorefresh locks the cache tables and its rows in the SYS.CACHE_GROUP table.

The ALTER CACHE GROUP SET AUTOREFRESH statement updates the cache group state in the SYS.CACHE_GROUP table.

This results in the following error:

Error TT6003: Lock request denied because of time-out.

As a workaround, you can:

Increase the lock timeout with the ttLockWait built-in procedure.

Stop the cache agent before executing the ALTER CACHE GROUP SET AUTOREFRESH statement to modify the autorefresh mode, state, or interval. The following example demonstrates setting the autorefresh state to paused.

Stop the cache agent.

Command> call ttCacheStop;

Alter the autorefresh state to the desired state. This example sets the autorefresh state to paused.

Command> ALTER CACHE GROUP new_customers SET AUTOREFRESH STATE PAUSED;

Start the cache agent.

Command> call ttCacheStart;

For more information on ALTER CACHE GROUP, see "ALTER CACHE GROUP" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database SQL Reference. For more information on the ttLockWait built-in procedure, see "ttLockWait" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Incremental autorefresh not progressing

If incremental autorefresh is not progressing, verify that:

Autorefresh state is ON.

Cache agent is running.

Inspect the support log for the conditions described in the following table:

Table summary is in the first heading cell.

Condition
What to do

Oracle Database server connection errors or warnings
See "Troubleshooting Client/Server problems" for information about resolving connection problems.

Lock timeout errors or warnings on TimesTen
This usually occurs because of an open DDL transaction on the cache group. Commit the DDL transaction so that autorefresh can get the necessary locks.

Insufficient permanent memory region errors on TimesTen
Increase PermSize.

Autorefresh Oracle Database object validations errors or warnings
See "Recover and reset autorefresh for the Oracle database objects".

Cache agent unexpected exit
Contact TimesTen technical support.

Core files in main daemon directory
Contact TimesTen technical support.

Warnings about incremental autorefresh becoming full refresh
See "Incremental autorefresh becomes full autorefresh".

Warnings that autorefresh has not finished for a long time
The autorefresh transaction can take a long time if many transactions have occurred since the last autorefresh.

Note: Cache groups with the same autorefresh interval are autorefreshed in one transaction.

Validate autorefresh for the Oracle database objects

The cache agent automatically verifies that the Oracle database objects exist and that they are valid so that autorefresh can progress. In normal operation, you should not see object validation errors or warnings in the user error log. If you see object validation errors, contact TimesTen technical support unless one of the following conditions has occurred:

The TimesTen database has been destroyed without using the DROP CACHE GROUP statement.

A customer application inadvertently modifies the objects directly in the Oracle database.

A DDL operation occurs on the base table on the Oracle database. This disables the trigger that controls autorefresh operations.

The cache group must be recreated if one of the preceding conditions has occurred.

Incremental autorefresh becomes full autorefresh

Incremental autorefresh can become full autorefresh if the cache administration user tablespace becomes full.

This section includes the following topics:

Detecting when incremental autorefresh becomes full

Understanding the cache administration user tablespace

Diagnosing a full cache administration user tablespace

Monitoring the usage of the cache administration user's tablespace

Considerations when the tablespace of the cache administration is full

Detecting when incremental autorefresh becomes full

You can detect when incremental autorefresh becomes full refresh by several methods:

Check for messages in the support log that indicate full autorefresh operations are occurring. For example:

2007-08-08 08:06:51.35 Warn: CAC: 11384: TT47166-11384-1087179104-lMarker01403:
A full autorefresh will be performed for Incremental autorefresh table
USER1.READTAB because change log table TT_06_55555_L on Oracle has been
truncated.

Use the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure.

If autorefresh is InProgress for longer than usual, full autorefresh may be occurring.

If a much larger number of rows (autoRefNumRows) was autorefreshed than usual, full autorefresh may have occurred.

Check the support log for messages about full autorefresh.

If SNMP traps are enabled, the ttCacheRecoveryAutorefreshTrap SNMP trap indicates a full autorefresh.

Understanding the cache administration user tablespace

TimesTen strongly recommends creating a separate tablespace for the cache administration user. This tablespace is used as the cache administration user's default tablespace. The tablespace contains autorefresh triggers for each Oracle database table, change log tables for each Oracle database table, and other objects that TimesTen needs for each cache administration user. If you do not specify a separate tablespace, then these objects are placed in the Oracle Database system tablespace.

Specify the tablespace when you create the cache administration user on the Oracle database. You can also specify the tablespace after user creation with the DEFAULT TABLESPACE clause of the Oracle Database ALTER USER statement.

Change log tables for each of the cached Oracle database tables reside in the cache administration user tablespace. For each update on an Oracle database table, one row (a change log record) is inserted into the change log table for that Oracle database table. The size of a change log record in bytes is as follows:

size of change log record = size of primary key on Oracle table + 250

The number of records in a change log table depends on the update rate on the Oracle database table and on the autorefresh interval on TimesTen. Every 20 seconds, TimesTen removes change log records that have been applied to all databases that cache the associated Oracle database table.

When change logs are removed, a message similar to the following is displayed in the support log:

16:32:26.73 Info: CAC: 5652: TT47112-5652-4756-ogTblGC01036: Garbage collector
deleted 1 rows from TT_06_383270_L where logseq < 1

There are options on how to manage what happens when the cache administration user tablespace is filled. See "Considerations when the tablespace of the cache administration is full" for more information.

Diagnosing a full cache administration user tablespace

Check for the following conditions if the cache administration user tablespace is full:

Is the autorefresh state set to PAUSED? Change log records accumulate when the state is PAUSED.

Has the cache group been created but not loaded? The default autorefresh state for cache group creation is PAUSED.

Is a cache group being created or is a database being duplicated? Both of these operations temporarily stop clean-up operations on the change log table.

Are the cache agents on all TimesTen databases running? If a cache agent is not running, change log records accumulate.

Has a database been abandoned without dropping autorefresh cache groups in the database? Abandoned databases result from scenarios such as the following:

The database is destroyed by ttDestroy -force.

The application connected to the database with the Overwrite connection attribute set to 1, but the cache groups that were in the old database are not recreated.

If the database still exists, connect to the abandoned database and drop the cache group.

Use the cacheInfo.sql script to find out how large the change log tables are for each cached Oracle database table. Use the output to verify that the databases are still in use. See "Displaying information from the change log tables".

If the databases are still in use, verify that the cache agents are running.

Compare the autorefresh progress on TimesTen to the maximum log sequence number on the change log table. If TimesTen is behind, then call the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure to see whether the autorefresh operations are successful. See "Using the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure".

If the status is InProgress longer than seems reasonable, see "Poor autorefresh performance".

You may need to decrease the autorefresh interval or increase the size of the cache administration user tablespace.

There are options on how to manage what happens when the cache administration user tablespace is filled. See "Considerations when the tablespace of the cache administration is full", following shortly, for more information.

Monitoring the usage of the cache administration user's tablespace

To monitor the cache administration user tablespace, you can use either Oracle Enterprise Manager alerts or set the TimesTen tablespace threshold parameter.

The cache agent can be configured to periodically monitor the tablespace usage and issue a warning when it exceeds a specified threshold. Set the tablespace threshold percentage with the TblspaceThreshold parameter of the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure. For example, if you set the TblspaceThreshold parameter to 80, then a warning is issued when more than 80% of the tablespace is used.

If the threshold is set to zero, then no warning is issued. This is the default.

If the threshold is set between 1 and 99, a warning is issued when the tablespace threshold exceeds that number.

If the threshold is set to 100, then a warning is issued when the tablespace is full.

For example, to configure for a warning to be issued if the tablespace exceeds 80%, execute the following:

call ttCacheConfig('TblspaceThreshold',,,'80');

For full details of the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure, see the "ttCacheConfig" section in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Considerations when the tablespace of the cache administration is full

With Oracle database tables that are cached in a TimesTen database, you can configure them to use incremental automatic refresh. For these tables, you can specify which one of the following is to occur when the cache administration user's tablespace is full:

The application performing the DML is to fail. This is the default.

The tablespace full recovery is set to none. The application receives an "Out of Tablespace" error from Oracle Database when the tablespace is full. At that point, the application will need to rollback the transaction.

Setting the tablespace full recovery to none is configured when you set the Param parameter to TblSpaceFullRecovery and the Value parameter to None with the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure. For example, the following configures Param to TblSpaceFullRecovery and Value to None for the employees table that is owned by terry:

call ttCacheConfig('TblSpaceFullRecovery','terry', 'employees','None');

Truncate the change log table to free up space and cause a full autorefresh.

When the cache administration user's tablespace is full, any application that is executing DML statements on the autorefresh cached Oracle database tables continues to execute. A trigger executes to free up space for new change log records by deleting existing change log records. This can result in a full automatic refresh on cache groups that have the incremental automatic refresh mode configured. However, if the Oracle database table is not configured for incremental automatic refresh, then no trigger executes.

To set the operation to enable the application to continue and cause an autorefresh, set the Param parameter to TblSpaceFullRecovery and the Value parameter to Reload with the ttCacheConfig procedure. The user will see stale data until the full autorefresh is complete.

However, even if the user sets the cache configuration parameter TblSpaceFullRecovery with the value of Reload, the tablespace may not be able to be emptied enough to handle the case of a growing index. Deleting rows from the change log table may not free up enough space for the index that is on the change log table. If the index is growing so fast that it uses all the tablespace to the point where purging the change log tables does not help, then the user's application may receive the following error:

ORA-01654: unable to extend index <index> by 128 in tablespace <tblspace>

For full details of the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure, see the "ttCacheConfig" section in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

Poor autorefresh performance

Poor autorefresh performance is usually the result of large autorefresh operations. Use the ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure to check the autorefresh duration and observe whether the status remains InProgress for a long time.

Factors that can cause large autorefresh operations include:

Incremental autorefresh becomes full autorefresh

Unresponsive or dead TimesTen database degrades autorefresh performance

Autorefresh cache group refresh with excessive waiting on resources

Abnormally large change log and base tables degrade autorefresh performance

Fragmented autorefresh change log table space

Performance degrades when autorefresh interval is small

Large autorefresh interval

Large number of cache groups with the same interval

High rate of changes to the Oracle database tables

The number of generations of child tables in a cache group

The number of rows in the cached Oracle database tables

The size of the rows in the cached Oracle database tables

Enable an AUTOREFRESH trace to diagnose autorefresh performance problems. See "AUTOREFRESH tracing".

Unresponsive or dead TimesTen database degrades autorefresh performance

Note:

Automatic recovery for TimesTen cache groups only applies to read-only and user managed cache groups that use the AUTOREFRESH cache group attribute. In this section, all references to autorefresh cache groups are read-only and user managed cache groups that use the AUTOREFRESH cache group attribute.

If any TimesTen databases containing autorefresh cache groups are destroyed or no longer in use, TimesTen continues to track autorefresh changes to the Oracle database tables for the TimesTen database for which the cache agent is not running. This causes automatic refresh to cache groups in active TimesTen databases to slow down.

The cache agent is responsible for detecting if a database is unresponsive or no longer in use. You can specify if and how a dead TimesTen database is to be recovered. However, you cannot recover a TimesTen database if all of the Oracle database objects have been removed.

The following sections describe how you can avoid a degraded autorefresh performance for inactive TimesTen databases:

Setting cached TimesTen database timeout

Configuring recovery method for certain cache groups

Setting cached TimesTen database timeout

You can instruct TimesTen to mark the database as dead and no longer accepting updates if the cache agent has not communicated with the Oracle Database server within a specific timeout period.

Set the timeout for the TimesTen database and the recovery method for each autorefresh cache group with the AgentTimeOut parameter in the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure. The timeout value applies to the all TimesTen databases that use the same cache administration user. You should set the timeout value greater than the time necessary to load the TimesTen database into memory on first connect and start the cache agent. Otherwise, the TimesTen database could be incorrectly marked as dead. For any planned maintenance for the TimesTen instance, you could temporarily set the AgentTimeOut value to zero to disable the timeout. For full details of the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure, see the "ttCacheConfig" section in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

For example, the following sets the timeout value for the TimesTen database to 6000 seconds or 100 minutes. If the cache agent does not contact the Oracle Database server within a 100-minute period, then the TimesTen database is marked as dead.

ttIsql> call ttCacheConfig('AgentTimeOut',,,'6000');

Configuring recovery method for certain cache groups

You can recover a TimesTen database and autorefresh cache groups if they are not synchronizing with the Oracle database. If there is no synchronization, then updates on the Oracle database tables are not automatically refreshed to the corresponding TimesTen cache tables.

You can configure the DeadDbRecovery parameter of the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure to specify how to recover the synchronization for the TimesTen database and all autorefresh cache groups. The setting for DeadDbRecovery applies to all TimesTen databases that use the same cache administrator user. Set the DeadDbRecovery parameter to Normal, Manual or None to describe how TimesTen is to recover the database and all autorefresh cache groups. The DeadDbRecovery setting applies to all TimesTen databases that use the same cache administration user. While TimesTen is recovering the database and its autorefresh cache groups, there is an autorefresh status for the TimesTen database and the autorefresh cache groups that describes the recovery status for each of these entities. The TimesTen database can have an automatic refresh status of Alive, Dead or Recovering. The autorefresh cache groups can have an automatic refresh status of OK, Dead or Recovering. The TimesTen database status changes are linked to changes in the status for the autorefresh cache groups, as follows:

If the recovery method is set to Normal, then when TimesTen starts a full automatic refresh on an autorefresh cache group, the cache group's status is set to Recovering and the database's status is also set to Recovering.

The TimesTen database's status is only set to Alive when all of the autorefresh cache groups have either been recovered to OK or have been dropped.

When the database status is set to Dead, then all of its autorefresh cache groups are also set to Dead.

Note:

You can determine the autorefresh status of the TimesTen database and autorefresh cache groups with the ttCacheDbCgStatus built-in procedure, which is described in the "ttCacheDbCgStatus" section in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.

When communication between the cache agent and the Oracle Database server is reestablished, TimesTen determines how to recover the autorefresh cache groups. TimesTen follows the recovery method you configured in the DeadDbRecovery parameter in the ttCacheConfig built-in procedure. This parameter can be set to one of the following:

Normal: This is the default. The autorefresh cache groups will each be recovered with a full automatic refresh. After the first full refresh, the cache group is recovered and will incrementally perform autorefresh.

The autorefresh cache groups within the same automatic refresh interval will be transactionally consistent. Because it is a full refresh, it is not as performant as an incremental refresh.

The autorefresh sets the status to Recovering. When the full autorefresh is completed successfully, the autorefresh cache group status is set to OK.

Manual: You must manually refresh an autorefresh cache group to recover it, or unload it if the cache group is dynamic.

None: The autorefresh cache group will never be recovered by a TimesTen autorefresh. Drop and recreate the cache group to recover it.

The database status changes as the first autorefresh cache group status changes. If there is at least one cache group that is in the process of recovery, then the database status is set to Recovering. Once all cache groups have been recovered, the status of the TimesTen database is marked as Alive.

The following example sets the DeadDbRecovery parameter to Normal for all autorefresh cache groups. The dead TimesTen database will be recovered when all of its autorefresh cache groups have each been recovered with a full automatic refresh.

ttIsql> call ttCacheConfig('DeadDbRecovery',,,'Normal');

When TimesTen databases participating in an active standby pair replication scheme contains cache groups, if the autorefresh status of the active master database is Dead and the autorefresh status of the standby master database is Alive, the standby master does not automatically assume the role of the active master. The recovery requires that you manually ensure that the cache and replication agents are executing. The specifics for each situation is as follows:

Table 3-2 Recovery for cache groups involved in active standby replication pair

DeadDbRecovery Setting
Active Master
Standby Master
Resulting Behavior

Normal

Alive

Dead

Make sure that the cache and replication agents are executing on the standby master. Once the cache agent can connect to the Oracle Database, then the status of all autorefresh cache groups is set to Recovering. This sets the database to Recovering. Once a single cache group has received enough data to resume autorefresh, the status is set to OK. After all cache group are set to OK, the database is set to Alive.

Alternatively, you can fail the standby master and rollout a new standby master.

Normal

Dead

Alive

Make sure that the cache and replication agents are executing on the active master. Once the cache agent can connect to the Oracle Database, then the status of all autorefresh cache groups is set to Recovering. This sets the database to Recovering. Once a single cache group has received enough data to resume autorefresh, the status is set to OK. After all cache group are set to OK, the database is set to Alive.

Alternatively, you can fail the active master, switch the standby master as the new active and then rollout a new standby master.

Normal

Dead

Dead

Make sure that the cache and replication agents are executing on both masters. Once the cache agent can connect to the Oracle Database, then the status of all autorefresh cache groups is set to Recovering. This sets the database to Recovering. Once a single cache group has received enough data to resume autorefresh, the status is set to OK. After all cache group are set to OK, the database is set to Alive.

Alternatively, you can rollout new masters.

Manual

Alive

Dead

Make sure that the cache and replication agents are executing on the standby master. Once the cache agent can connect to the Oracle Database, then the status of all autorefresh cache groups is set to Recovering. This sets the database to Recovering. Once a single cache group has received enough data to resume autorefresh, the status is set to OK. After all cache group are set to OK, the database is set to Alive.

Alternatively, you can fail the standby master and rollout a new standby master.

Manual

Dead

Alive

Make sure that the cache and replication agents are executing on the active master. Use a manual refresh to recover the autorefresh cache groups on the active master. After all cache group are set to OK or have been dropped, the database is set to Alive.

Manual

Dead

Dead

Make sure that the cache and replication agents are executing on the active master. Use a manual refresh to recover the autorefresh cache groups on the active master. After all cache group are set to OK or have been dropped, the database is set to Alive. Changes are then replicated to the standby master.

None

Alive

Dead

Mark the standby master as failed. Execute ttDestroy utility for the standby master database. Duplicate the active master by executing ttRepAdmin -duplicate utility from the active master.

None

Dead

Alive

Destroy the dead active master with the ttDestroy utility. Recover the dead active master by duplicating the standby master with the ttRepAdmin -duplicate utility.

None

Dead

Dead

Roll out new masters.

Autorefresh cache group refresh with excessive waiting on resources

During an autorefresh cache group refresh, there can be excessive buffer busy waits, row lock waits, and deadlocks on updates in the Oracle database, which can negatively affect the throughput performance. When there are multiple deadlocks on updates in the Oracle database involving the autorefresh log tables, the following may appear in the support log:

Oracle native error code = 60, msg = ORA-00060: deadlock detected while waiting
for resource
An error occurred while preparing or executing the following Oracle sql
statement: <some statement involving <cache admin user>.TT_##_#######_L  where
the # is some number>

You can improve your performance by modifying the INITRANS and FREELISTS settings, which can affect the concurrent inserts into the autorefresh log table and internal maintenance of these tables. The application updating the base table that is being autorefreshed encounters a throughput performance hit when these settings are not appropriately configured.

You can automatically or manually manage these settings as follows:

Use ASSM tablespace, which automatically manages FREELISTS.

Manually adjust FREELISTS and INITRANS for the autorefresh log table on the Oracle database.

The following details how to manually modify INITRANS and FREELISTS for the autorefresh log table on the Oracle database:

Retrieve the name of the autorefresh log table that is on the Oracle database.

Under the cache administration user login, execute the SQL*Plus script cacheInfo.sql that lists the autorefresh change log table name, along with other items. The following example executes the cacheInfo.sql script that lists the autorefresh change log table name as tt_06_1216726_L, as shown in bold:

SQL> @cacheInfo.sql
*************Autorefresh Objects Information  ***************
Host name: syst
Timesten datastore name: /users/OracleCache/alone1
Cache table name: ORATT.ORDERS
Change log table name: tt_06_1216726_L
Number of rows in change log table: 1
Maximum logseq on the change log table: 2
Timesten has autorefreshed updates upto logseq: 1
Number of updates waiting to be autorefreshed: 1
Number of updates that has not been marked with a valid logseq: 0
****************************
Host name: consyst
Timesten datastore name: /users/OracleCache/alone1
Cache table name: ORATT.ITEMS
Change log table name: tt_06_1279699_L
Number of rows in change log table: 7
Maximum logseq on the change log table: 0
Timesten has autorefreshed updates upto logseq: 0
Number of updates waiting to be autorefreshed: 5
Number of updates that has not been marked with a valid logseq: 5
****************************

Manually alter the table on the Oracle database. The following example uses the table from the previous example. This example alters the INITRANS and FREELISTS settings for the bar.tt_06_1279699_L table.

Note:

See "INITRANS integer" and "FREELISTS" in the Oracle Database SQL Language Reference for details on what are the correct values for configuring these settings.

ALTER TABLE BAR.TT_06_1279699_L INITRANS 10;
ALTER TABLE BAR.TT_06_1279699_L STORAGE(FREELISTS 5);
or
ALTER TABLE BAR.TT_06_1279699_L MOVE STORAGE(FREELISTS 5);

Alter the INITRANS and FREELISTS settings for the index for this table, which have the same name as the autorefresh change log table with an additional "L" at the end of it. For example, the index for table bar.tt_06_1279699_L is bar.tt_06_1279699_LL.

These settings should be the same as what you set for the autorefresh change log table.

ALTER INDEX BAR.TT_06_1279699_LL INITRANS 10;
ALTER INDEX BAR.TT_06_1279699_LL STORAGE(FREELISTS 5);

Abnormally large change log and base tables degrade autorefresh performance

The cache thread SQL refresh joins the change log table and the base table, which identifies rows needed to be refreshed into TimesTen. The larger the cardinalities of the base table and the change log table, the longer the time necessary to perform this join. Performance degradation may occur if either the change log table or the base table is abnormally large.

The following describes scenarios where the change log table can become abnormally large.

If the change log table is never purged in configurations where cache groups from multiple DSNs all reference the same base table, it increases in size indefinitely. If one or more of the cache agents for these groups are turned off, those DSNs will not properly refresh their cache groups and the change log tables will not be purged. If the autorefresh state is turned to paused on one of multiple nodes, the other nodes may slow down.

The change log table can grow abnormally large if some cache agents have been shut down. Resolve this issue by restarting the cache, which will purge all of the backlogged log rows to be purged and all of the cache groups to be synchronized after the completion of the refresh cycle for all cache groups.

The change log table can be abnormally large if rows inserted into the change log table are never purged and can never be purged by normal processing. This occurs when one or more DSNs are destroyed or rebuilt without first removing the cache groups. The cache group tables on the Oracle database have no information that the cache groups have been destroyed, which corrupts the entire cache group. Rebuild and reinitialize all of the cache groups associated with this base table. Alternatively, never destroy a DSN with cache groups. Instead, always drop the cache groups before destroying a DSN.

Fragmented autorefresh change log table space

Change log tables can become fragmented when a high water mark occurs as the result of change logs building up when TimesTen is shut down, for example. If change log tables have become fragmented, you can:

Coalesce their indexes. This can be done without preventing DML changes to the base tables.

Perform an online segment shrink. This can be done without preventing DML changes to the base tables. See "Understanding Reclaimable Unused Space" in Oracle Database Administrator's Guide.

Rebuild the change log tables.

Check to see whether space is being wasted:

Determine the name of the change log table by running the cacheInfo.sql script on the Oracle database.

Calculate the size of the change log table. Call the result A. Adapt the name of the change log table in this example.

SELECT table_name, ROUND((BLOCKS*8),2)||'KB' "size"
 FROM user_tables
 WHERE table_name LIKE 'TT_05_%_L";

Calculate the size of the data in the change log table. Call the result B. Adapt the name of the change log table in this example.

SELECT table_name, ROUND((num_rows*avg_row_length/1024),2)|| 'KB' "size"
 FROM user_tables
 WHERE table_name LIKE 'TT_05_%_L';

If (B/A)*100 is greater than 50 percent, then there is at least 40 percent space wasted (assuming a PCTFREE storage parameter set to 10). If there is at least 40 percent space wasted, defragmenting the change log table is recommended.

Perform these steps to defragment the change log table:

Alter the cache group to set the autorefresh state to PAUSED.

Copy the rows in the change log table to a temporary table.

Truncate the change log table.

Insert the rows from the temporary table to the change log table.

Alter the cache group to set the autorefresh state to ON.

Performance degrades when autorefresh interval is small

When a relatively short refresh interval, such as a few hundred milliseconds, is combined with a large number of entries in the log table or in the base table, a cache refresh operation does not complete before the next refresh operation is scheduled to begin. In this case, the entries in the log table can be un-marked when the current autorefresh cycle finishes.

Thus, the same rows can be refreshed from the base table to the cache group in the next autorefresh cycle, by which time the rows will be marked. Make sure that the time it for the refresh is greater than the refresh interval. Set the refresh interval to a value where redundant refreshes will not occur.

Declaring NOVALIDATE on constraints causes cache group creation failure

If the Oracle database table on which you want to create the cache group declares NOVALIDATE on columns with primary key, UNIQUE or NOT NULL constraints, the creation of the cache group fails.

Note:

This does not apply to any foreign key constraints. However, TimesTen recommends that any matching foreign key is in the enabled VALIDATE state. Your workload performance may be affected when you alter a foreign key column to the enabled VALIDATE state.

TimesTen perceives a NOVALIDATE on a primary key or NOT NULL table column definition as a NULL and, therefore, not qualified as a column on which to build the cache group. Thus, all columns with the primary key, UNIQUE and NOT NULL column constraints must be enabled with the VALIDATE state when creating a cache group from the Oracle database table.

When you create a cache group from an Oracle database table with one or more of these constraints, the following errors are thrown:

5124: Autorefresh/propagate are not allowed on restricted cache group
5168: Restricted cache groups are deprecated
5120: No matching unique index with not null columns, unique key constraint
 with not null columns, or primary key constraint on table EVENTLOG, cache
 operations are restricted.

If you receive these errors, you can perform a SELECT statement to verify any existing NOVALIDATE constraints on the Oracle database table. The following SELECT statement shows all constraints on the MyTable table:

SQL> select constraint_name, constraint_type, validated, status from
        all_constraints where table_name = 'MyTable';

CONSTRAINT_NAME                C VALIDATED     STATUS
------------------------------ - ------------- --------
REFID_CONSTRAINT               C VALIDATED     ENABLED
PKEY_CONSTRAINT                P NOT VALIDATED DISABLED

If the table column that is to be the primary key for the cache table is enabled as NOVALIDATE, perform the following steps to enable the column with the VALIDATE state:

Enable the NOVALIDATE state for the primary key column.

SQL> alter table MyTable modify constraint PKEY_CONSTRAINT
           enable novalidate;
Table altered.

SQL> select constraint_name, constraint_type, validated, status
          from all_constraints where table_name = 'MyTable';

CONSTRAINT_NAME                C VALIDATED     STATUS
------------------------------ - ------------- --------
REFID_CONSTRAINT               C VALIDATED     ENABLED
PKEY_CONSTRAINT                P NOT VALIDATED ENABLED

Enable the VALIDATE state for the primary key column.

SQL> alter table MyTable modify constraint PKEY_CONSTRAINT validate;
Table altered.

SQL> select constraint_name, constraint_type, validated, status
          from all_constraints where table_name = 'MyTable';

CONSTRAINT_NAME                C VALIDATED     STATUS
------------------------------ - ------------- --------
REFID_CONSTRAINT               C VALIDATED     ENABLED
PKEY_CONSTRAINT                P VALIDATED     ENABLED

AWR report showing lock contention with DBMS_LOCK

There may be some concern about lock contention when seeing DBMS_LOCK in the Automated Workload Repository (AWR) Report. However, this DBMS_LOCK wait event does not affect the application performance in an TimesTen cache grid, even though the database time consumption in the AWR report seems high. This wait event is the garbage collector session trying to place a hold on a resource that another garbage collector session from another database has already locked. Thus, only the current garbage collector session waits. The wait for the garbage collector process does not block other processes, except other garbage collectors.

For example, the following shows a contention event in the AWR report:

AWR

Top 5 Timed Events                                         Avg %Total
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                        wait   Call
Event                                 Waits    Time (s)   (ms)   Time Wait Class
------------------------------ ------------ ----------- ------ ------ ----------
enq: UL - contention                  2,388       6,997   2930   72.0 Application

In addition, only a small amount of CPU time is used for the garbage collector, as shown in the "SQL ordered by CPU Time" section in the PERF AWR report.

SQL ordered by CPU Time              DB/Inst: REM0LNX/REM  Snaps: 14976-14977
-> Resources reported for PL/SQL code includes the resources used by all SQL
   statements called by the code.
-> % Total DB Time is the Elapsed Time of the SQL statement divided
   into the Total Database Time multiplied by 100

    CPU      Elapsed                  CPU per  % Total
  Time (s)   Time (s)  Executions     Exec (s) DB Time    SQL Id
---------- ---------- ------------ ----------- ------- -------------
         0      3,508          120        0.00    36.1 0mt5pk2501gph
Module: timestenorad@etcpro01.oracle.com (TNS V1-V3)
DECLARE v_lockHandle VARCHAR2(200); BEGIN dbms_lock.allocate_unique(
'ORATT$ORA_GC1_CACHEADMIN', v_lockHandle); :retval := dbms_lock.request(
v_lockHandle, dbms_lock.x_mode, 30, FALSE); END;
         0      3,499          120        0.00    36.0 bb07h2a1v817x
Module: timestenorad@etcpro01.oracle.com (TNS V1-V3)
DECLARE v_lockHandle VARCHAR2(200); BEGIN dbms_lock.allocate_unique(
'ORATT$ORA_DDSMONITOR1_CACHEADMIN', v_lockHandle); :retval :=
dbms_lock.request(v_lockHandle, dbms_lock.x_mode, 30, FALSE); END;

4 Troubleshooting Replication 

The following sections in this chapter describe how to troubleshoot problems you may encounter when replicating databases:

Unable to create a replication scheme

Unable to alter a replication scheme

Unable to start or stop replication agent

Using SNMP traps for notification of replication events

Replication does not work

Replication unresponsive, appears hung

Poor replication or XLA performance

Problems using ttRepAdmin

Problems with conflict checking

Problems with parallel replication

Note:

Error log messages from the replication agent daemon are designated by REP in the message, as shown in several examples in this chapter. These messages are enabled unless you disable the REPLICATION component of the ttDaemonLog utility. See "ttDaemonLog" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference for information about ttDaemonLog options for Windows and UNIX.

Unable to create a replication scheme

This section describes what to check if you are unable to use CREATE REPLICATION to create a replication scheme.

Possible cause
What to do

User does not have ADMIN privilege.
You must have ADMIN privilege to use the CREATE REPLICATION or DROP REPLICATION statements.

Database name, host name, or element name is incorrect.

Check the CREATE REPLICATION statement for typographical errors.

See "Check host names".

Use official host names instead of aliases.

The host name should match the value returned by the hostname command on your system and should be used consistently throughout the replication scheme.

The local host is not part of the replication scheme.
Create the replication scheme on a host that will be part of the replication scheme.

Replication tables defined in the CREATE REPLICATION statement do not exist.
The name, owner, and column definitions of the tables participating in the replication scheme must be identical on both the master and subscriber databases. Use CREATE TABLE to create tables on the database, or use the ttRepAdmin -duplicate utility or the ttRepDuplicateEx C function to duplicate the entire database to be replicated.

There are other problems.
Review the procedures and requirements described in "Defining Classic Replication Schemes" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

Unable to alter a replication scheme

This section describes what to check if you are unable to use ALTER REPLICATION to alter a replication scheme.

Possible cause
What to do

User does not have ADMIN privilege.
You must have ADMIN privilege to use the ALTER REPLICATION statement.

Replication agent is in Start state.
Most ALTER REPLICATION operations are supported only when the replication agent is stopped (ttAdmin -repStop). Stop the replication agents on both master and subscriber databases, alter the replication scheme on both master and subscriber databases, then restart both replication agents.

Database name, host name, or element name is inconsistent.

Check ALTER REPLICATION statement for typographical errors.

See "Check host names".

Replication table defined in the ALTER REPLICATION statement does not exist.
Use CREATE TABLE to create a table on the database.

There are other problems.
Review the procedures and requirements described in "Altering a Classic Replication Scheme" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

Unable to start or stop replication agent

This section describes what to check if you are unable to start or stop a replication agent.

Possible cause | What to do
User does not have ADMIN privileges. | You must have ADMIN privileges to use the ttAdmin utility or the ttRepStart or ttRepStop procedures to start or stop a replication agent.
TimesTen daemon is not started. | Check the state of the TimesTen daemon, as described in "Check the TimesTen user error log". If necessary, start the TimesTen daemon as described in "Working with the TimesTen Data Manager Daemon" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.
Database does not participate in a replication scheme. | If a database does not participate in a replication scheme, attempts to start a replication agent for that database will fail. Use CREATE REPLICATION to create a replication scheme for the database.

Using SNMP traps for notification of replication events

TimesTen can send SNMP traps for certain replication events to enable network management software to take immediate action. TimesTen can send the following traps for replication events:

ttRepAgentExitingTrap

ttRepAgentDiedTrap

ttRepAgentStartingTrap

ttRepCatchupStartTrap

ttRepCatchupStopTrap

ttRepReturnTransitionTrap

ttRepSubscriberFailedTrap

ttRepUpdateFailedTrap

These traps are described in "Diagnostics through SNMP Traps" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps.

Replication does not work

If you are unable to get replication working between a master and subscriber database, the problem may be one or more of the following:

Possible cause
See...

TimesTen daemon or replication agents are not running.
"Check status of TimesTen daemon and replication agents", below

Master and subscriber agents are not communicating.
"Check that replication agents are communicating"

Replication is not in Start state.
"Check replication state"

There is an error in the replication scheme.
"Check replication scheme configuration"

Owner names for replication scheme and tables are inconsistent.
"Check owner names"

Replication tables are inconsistent.
"Check consistency between replicated tables"

Check status of TimesTen daemon and replication agents

Use the ttStatus utility to confirm the main TimesTen daemon is running and the replication agents are started for all of your master and subscriber databases. The output from a simple replication scheme using a single master and subscriber database should look like that shown in Example 4-1.

If the TimesTen daemon is running, but the replication agents are not, the output looks like that shown in Example 4-2. In this case, start the replication agents as described in "Starting and stopping the replication agents" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

If neither the TimesTen daemon or replication agents are running, the output looks like that shown in Example 4-3. In this case, confirm you have correctly installed TimesTen and the Data Manager service is started, as described in "TimesTen Installation" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide.

Example 4-1 ttStatus output for one master and one subscriber

C:\>ttStatus
TimesTen status report as of Mon Aug  6 22:07:53 2012
Daemon pid 5088 port 17000 instance MYINSTANCE
TimesTen server pid 4344 started on port 17002
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data store c:\temp\subscriber1ds
There are 12 connections to the data store
Data store is in shared mode
Shared Memory KEY Global\DBI45b9471c.2.SHM.2 HANDLE 0x280
Type            PID     Context     Connection Name              ConnID
Process         1244    0x00d08fb0  subscriber1ds                     1
Replication     4548    0x00aed2f8  LOGFORCE                          4
Replication     4548    0x00b03470  TRANSMITTER                       5
Replication     4548    0x00b725a8  RECEIVER                          6
Replication     4548    0x00b82808  REPHOLD                           2
Replication     4548    0x00b98980  REPLISTENER                       3
Subdaemon       2752    0x00526768  Worker                         2042
Subdaemon       2752    0x0072a758  Flusher                        2043
Subdaemon       2752    0x007308c0  Checkpoint                     2044
Subdaemon       2752    0x00736a28  HistGC                         2046
Subdaemon       2752    0x067f02f8  Aging                          2045
Subdaemon       2752    0x068364a0  Monitor                        2047
Replication policy  : Manual
Replication agent is running.
Cache agent policy : Manual
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data store c:\temp\masterds
There are 12 connections to the data store
Data store is in shared mode
Shared Memory KEY Global\DBI45b945d0.0.SHM.6 HANDLE 0x2bc
Type            PID     Context     Connection Name              ConnID
Process         5880    0x00d09008  masterds                          1
Replication     3728    0x00aed570  LOGFORCE                          4
Replication     3728    0x00b036e8  TRANSMITTER                       5
Replication     3728    0x00b168b8  REPHOLD                           3
Replication     3728    0x00b1ca20  REPLISTENER                       2
Replication     3728    0x00b22b88  RECEIVER                          6
Subdaemon       3220    0x00526768  Worker                         2042
Subdaemon       3220    0x0072e768  Flusher                        2043
Subdaemon       3220    0x007348d0  Checkpoint                     2044
Subdaemon       3220    0x067b0068  Aging                          2045
Subdaemon       3220    0x067c0040  Monitor                        2047
Subdaemon       3220    0x068404c8  HistGC                         2046
Replication policy  : Manual
Replication agent is running.
Cache agent policy : Manual
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data store c:\temp\demo
There are no connections to the data store
Replication policy : Manual
Cache agent policy : Manual
------------------------------------------------------------------------
End of report

Example 4-2 Replication agent is not running

> ttStatus
TimesTen status report as of Mon Aug  6 22:07:53 2012

Daemon pid 3396 port 15000 instance MYINSTANCE
TimesTen server pid 3436 started on port 15002
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Data store c:\temp\subscriberds
There are no connections to the data store
cache agent restart policy: manual
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Data store c:\temp\masterds
There are no connections to the data store
cache agent restart policy: manual
-----------------------------------------------------------------
End of report

Example 4-3 TimesTen daemon and replication agent are not running

> ttStatus
ttStatus: Could not connect to TimesTen daemon: Connection refused

Check that replication agents are communicating

Use ttRepAdmin -receiver -list to see that the replication agents are communicating with each other. If the masterds database is replicating to subscriberds, the output should look similar to the following:

Example 4-4 Check that the replication agents are communicating

> ttRepAdmin -receiver -list masterDSN
Peer name         Host name                 Port    State  Proto
----------------  ------------------------ ------  ------- -----
SUBSCRIBERDS      MYHOST                    Auto   Start       10

Last Msg Sent Last Msg Recv Latency TPS     RecordsPS Logs
------------- ------------- ------- ------- --------- ----
0:01:12       -               19.41       5        52    2

Check replication state

Use the ttReplicationStatus procedure to check the state of the subscriber database with respect to its master. If the subscriber is in the Stop, Pause, or Failed state, use the ttReplicationStatus procedure to reset the subscriber state to Start, as described in "Setting the replication state of subscribers" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

Example 4-5 Obtain status of the subscriber database from the master database

Use ttReplicationStatus to obtain the status of the subscriberds database from its master database, masterDSN, enter:

> ttIsql masterDSN
Command> CALL ttReplicationStatus ('subscriberds');
< SUBSCRIBERDS, MYHOST, 0, pause, 1, 10, REPSCHEME, REPL >
1 row found.

To reset state to Start call the ttRepSubscriberStateSet procedure:

Command> CALL ttRepSubscriberStateSet('REPSCHEME', 'REPL', 'SUBSCRIBERDS', 'MYHOST', 0)
Command> CALL ttReplicationStatus ('subscriberds');
< SUBSCRIBERDS, MYHOST, 0, start, 1, 152959, REPSCHEME, REPL >
1 row found.

Check replication scheme configuration

This section describes some procedures you can use to confirm the correct configuration of the various components in your replicated system. The basic procedure categories are:

Check ttRepAdmin -showconfig

Check the TTREP.TTSTORES table

Check host names

Check ttRepAdmin -showconfig

Use ttRepAdmin -showconfig to confirm the configuration of your replication scheme.

What to look for:

Are all of the subscriber agents started and reported to be in the Start state? If not, reset the agents to the Start state. See "Setting the replication state of subscribers" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

Do the reported Peer names match the names given in the DataStore attributes in the DSN definitions for the replicated databases? Replication does not work if you specified the names given for the Data Source Name attributes.

Is there anything under List of subscribers? If not, confirm the database names you specified in the DSN definition are consistent with those you specified in your replication scheme configuration file.

Are the Host names correct? If in doubt, see "Check host names".

Are the correct table names displayed under Table details? If not, correct the table names in your replication scheme configuration file.

Example 4-6 Confirm the configuration of the replication scheme

> ttRepAdmin -showconfig masterDSN
Self host "MYHOST", port auto, name "MASTERDS", LSN 4/2970276, timeout 120, threshold 0
List of subscribers
-----------------
Peer name         Host name                 Port    State  Proto
----------------  ------------------------ ------  ------- -----
SUBSCRIBERDS      MYHOST                    Auto   Start      10
Last Msg Sent Last Msg Recv Latency TPS     RecordsPS Logs
------------- ------------- ------- ------- --------- ----
0:01:12       -               19.41       5        52    2
List of tables and subscriptions
--------------------------------
Table details
-------------
Table : REPL.TAB
Master Name               Subscriber Name
-----------               -------------
MASTERDS                  SUBSCRIBERDS

Check the TTREP.TTSTORES table

Check the TTREP.TTSTORES table to confirm that replication associates the replication scheme with the local database.

Example 4-7 Confirm that the replication scheme is associated with the local database

Connect to the database and enter:

SELECT * FROM ttrep.ttstores WHERE is_local_store <> 0x0;

Command> select * from ttrep.ttstores where is_local_store <> 0x0;
< -5193371075573733683, MYHOST, MASTERDS, 01, 0, 0, 4, 0 >
1 row found.

There should be exactly one row returned. If more than one row is returned, contact TimesTen technical support. If no rows are returned, then none of the hosts returned by the following statement is perceived to be a local system by TimesTen replication:

SELECT DISTINCT host_name FROM ttrep.ttstores;

It may also be that none of the database names specified in your replication scheme match those specified in your DSN descriptions.

Check host names

Some hosts or IP addresses specified in a replication scheme cannot be resolved by the replication agent because:

Host names or IP addresses specified in the replication scheme are wrong or misspelled.

Host names or IP addresses cannot be resolved or found by DNS or in the /etc/hosts file

Entries in the /etc/hosts file are incorrectly ordered in appearance. This error is most common when multiple NICs are used. You must have root privilege to make changes to the /etc/hosts files.

See "Configuring the network" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for details on how to configure DNS and /etc/hosts files for host systems used for replication.

To check if a host name in the replication scheme matches the host name of the local system, write an application to perform these tasks:

Use a gethostname operating system function call to determine the host name of the running host.

Call gethostbyname with the output from Step 1.

Call gethostbyname with the host name specified in the replication scheme.

Compare output of Step 2 and Step 3. If there is a match, then the running host is involved in replication. Otherwise, it is not involved in replication.

Check owner names

As described in "Table requirements and restrictions for classic replication schemes" and "Owner of the replication scheme and replicated objects" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide, the owner names of your replication scheme and your replicated tables must be consistent across all participating databases. This indicates that the replication scheme owner must match in all databases and each table must be owned by the same user in each database.

Checking replication owner

Check the owner name assigned to your replication scheme by calling the ttIsql repschemes command or by listing the contents of the TTREP.REPLICATIONS table.

Example 4-8 shows that the replication scheme name, REPSCHEME, has a consistent owner name (REPL) in the databases on both SYSTEM1 and SYSTEM2. Example 4-9 shows the scheme name with inconsistent owner names. This can occur if you omit the owner name from the replication scheme definition and the system uses the Id of the replication scheme creator.

Example 4-8 Consistent owner names for replication scheme

On SYSTEM1:

> ttIsql masterDSN
Command> select * from ttrep.replications;
< REPSCHEME            , REPL                 , C, 0, 0, -1 >
1 row found.

On SYSTEM2:

> ttIsql -connStr "dsn=subscriberDSN"
Command> select * from ttrep.replications;
< REPSCHEME            , REPL                 , C, 0, 0, -1 >
1 row found.

Example 4-9 Inconsistent owner names for replication scheme

On SYSTEM1:

> ttIsql masterDSN
Command> select * from ttrep.replications;
< REPSCHEME            , SYSTEM1               , C, 0, 0, -1 >
1 row found.

On SYSTEM2:

> ttIsql -connStr "dsn=subscriberDSN"
Command> select * from ttrep.replications;
< REPSCHEME            , SYSTEM2               , C, 0, 0, -1 >
1 row found.

Checking table owner

Check the owner names assigned to the tables in each database by using the ttIsql tables command.

Example 4-10 Consistent table owner names

This example shows that the TAB table has a consistent owner name (REPL) in the databases on both SYSTEM1 and SYSTEM2.

Output for SYSTEM1
Output for SYSTEM2

REPL.TAB

REPL.TAB

Example 4-11 Inconsistent table owner names

This example shows the TAB table with inconsistent owner names, which were automatically assigned for each host.

Output for SYSTEM1
Output for SYSTEM2

SYSTEM1.TAB

SYSTEM2.TAB

Check consistency between replicated tables

By default, TimesTen creates a replication scheme with the TABLE DEFINITION CHECKING RELAXED attribute. The TABLE DEFINITION CHECKING RELAXED attribute does not require that the column definition of replicated tables be identical. Rather, the RELAXED attribute only requires that replicated tables have the same key definition, number of columns, column names, and column data types. If you define the replication scheme with the TABLE DEFINITION CHECKING EXACT clause, then the column definitions of replicated tables participating in the replication scheme must be identical on the master and subscriber databases. TimesTen recommends that you use TABLE DEFINITION CHECKING RELAXED. For more information, see "Column definition options for replicated tables" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

Example 4-12 Check consistency between replicated tables

This output from the user error log shows a mismatch on the number of columns for the subscriber table TTUSER.MYDSN.

11:37:58.00 Info: REP:  9430: REP1:transmitter.c(4936): TT16136: Sending
definition for table TTUSER.MYDSN (1 column)
11:37:58.00 Info: REP:  9412: REP2:receiver.c(5928): TT16193: Adding definition
for table: TTUSER.MYDSN
11:37:58.00 Info: REP:  9412: REP2:meta.c(5580):TTUSER.MYDSN ptn 0: srcoff 0,
destoff 0, length 8
11:37:58.00 Info: REP:  9412: REP2:meta.c(5580):TTUSER.MYDSN ptn 1: srcoff 8,
destoff 12, length 12
11:37:58.00 Err : REP:  9412: REP2:receiver.c(6203): TT16198: Table definition
mismatch on number of columns for table TTUSER.MYDSN.  Local definition: 2;
transmitting peer: 1
11:37:58.00 Err : REP:  9412: REP2:receiver.c(6380): TT16204: Table TTUSER.MYDSN
marked invalid. Will not apply transactions received for it until a valid
definition is received
11:37:58.00 Err : REP:  9412: REP2:receiver.c(7200): TT16078: Table definition
for ID 637068 is invalid (Original failure 11:37:58
REP2:receiver.c(6203): TT16198: Table definition mismatch on number of columns
for table TTUSER.MYDSN.  Local definition: 2; transmitting peer: 1)
11:37:58.00 Err : REP:  9412: REP2:receiver.c(5002): TT16187: Transaction
1173958671/2; Error: transient 0, permanent 1

Replication unresponsive, appears hung

Table summary is in the first heading cell.

Possible cause | See...
There is a failed subscriber. | "Check replication state", below
Return-receipt timeout period is too long. | "Check return receipt timeout setting", below

Check replication state

Use the ttReplicationStatus procedure to check state of the subscriber database with respect to its master. If the subscriber is in the Failed state, see "Managing Database Failover and Recovery" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for information on how to deal with failed databases.

Example 4-13 Check replication state

Use ttReplicationStatus to obtain the status of the subscriberds database from its master database, masterDSN, enter:

> ttIsql masterDSN
Command> CALL ttReplicationStatus ('subscriberds');
< SUBSCRIBERDS, MYHOST, 0, failed, 1, 10, REPSCHEME, REPL >
1 row found.

Check return receipt timeout setting

Use the ttRepSyncGet procedure to check the return receipt timeout setting. A value of -1 indicates the application is to wait until it receives an acknowledgment from the subscriber. Network latency or other issues might delay receipt of the subscriber acknowledgment. You either address these issues or use the ttRepSyncGet procedure to reset the return receipt timeout period.

See "Check the status of return service transactions" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for more information.

Poor replication or XLA performance

Most of this section addresses issues that may impact replication performance. Some issues, such as log buffer too small and reading from the transaction log files on disk, can impact the performance of both replication and XLA applications.

Possible cause
See...

Network is slow.
"Check network bandwidth", below

RETURN RECEIPT is used.
"Check use of return receipt blocking", below

Replication scheme is inconsistent.
"Check replication configuration"

Log buffer is too small.
"Check size of log buffer"

There are frequent or inefficient disk writes.
"Check durability settings"

Reading from transaction log files on disk rather than the log buffer.
"Check for reads from transaction log files"

Rate of conflicts is high.
"Conflict reporting slows down replication"

Check network bandwidth

Replication agents typically communicate over some type of network connection. If replicating over a network slower than 10 MB per second (such as common with a 100 Base-T Ethernet typical in a LAN), you must be careful to match the transaction load to the available bandwidth of the network. see "Network bandwidth requirements" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for details.

Check use of return receipt blocking

Unless you need receipt confirmation for all your transactions, disable RETURN RECEIPT BLOCKING. If you require receipt confirmation for some transactions, then set RETURN RECEIPT BY REQUEST and call the ttRepSyncSet procedure to enable the return receipt service for specific transactions. See "RETURN RECEIPT BY REQUEST" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for details.

Note:

The performance degradation caused by return-receipt becomes less of an issue when multiple applications (or threads) are updating the database. If you must use return-receipt in a transaction, you can improve the performance of your application by using multiple threads to update the database. Though each thread must block for receipt confirmation, the other threads are free to make updates.

Check replication configuration

In addition to return-receipt setting described above, other factors related to the configuration of your replication scheme could impact replication performance. As described in "Making decisions about performance and recovery tradeoffs" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide, you often have to weigh the ability to efficiently failover and recover a database against replication performance.

For more information about direct replication, see "Direct replication or propagation" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

Check size of log buffer

Setting your log buffer too small may impact replication performance. Instead, Set the LogBufMB DSN attribute to a larger size. For more information on this DSN attribute, see "Setting connection attributes for logging" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide

Check durability settings

You can improve replication performance by setting TRANSMIT NONDURABLE on the replication ELEMENT to eliminate the flush-log-to-disk operation from the replication cycle. See "Setting transmit durability on DATASTORE element" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for details.

Enabling the DURABLE COMMIT option in your replication scheme also impacts performance. See "DURABLE COMMIT" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide for more information.

Check for reads from transaction log files

In some situations a "log reader," such as a master replication agent 'transmitter' thread or a ttXlaNextUpdate call in an XLA application, may not be able to keep up with the update rate of the applications writing to the database. Normally, replication and XLA readers get update records from the log buffer in memory. When the readers fall behind the application update rate, transaction log files can accumulate on the disk until the backlog can be cleared. This forces the readers to read transactions from the transaction log files on disk, which is much slower. Should you detect reads from the transaction log files, you may want to respond by decreasing the rate of application updates to that sustainable by the log readers.

Applications can monitor whether log readers are obtaining update records from transaction log files on disk rather than from the log buffer in memory by tracking the SYS.MONITOR table entry LOG_FS_READS. For example, you can check the value of LOG_FS_READS for the database, MASTERDSN, with the following ttIsql command.

% ttIsql -v1 -e "select log_fs_reads from monitor; quit;" -connStr dsn=MASTERDSN

If the LOG_FS_READS counter is increasing, the log readers are falling behind or clearing out a backlog in the transaction log files.

For more complete monitoring of replication progress, create a simple shell script like the following:

!/bin/sh
trap exit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
DSN=$1

while [ 1 ] ; do
   date
   ttRepAdmin -receiver -list -connStr dsn=$DSN
   echo -n "Log reads from disk: "
   ttIsql -v1 -e "select log_fs_reads from monitor; quit;" -connStr dsn=$DSN
   echo
   ttRepAdmin -bookmark -connStr dsn=$DSN
sleep 15
done

Example 4-14 Check the status of the transaction log

For example, you name the above script monitorLog and your replication scheme replicates from the MASTERDSN database to the SUBSCRIBER1DSN database. You can then check the status of the transaction log by entering:

$ monitorLog masterdsn

This generates output similar to the following:

Mon Aug  2 10:44:40  2004
Peer name         Host name                 Port    State  Proto
----------------  ------------------------ ------  ------- -----
SUBSCRIBER1DSN    MYHOST                    Auto    Start   12

Last Msg Sent Last Msg Recv Latency TPS     RecordsPS Logs
------------- ------------- ------- ------- --------- ----
00:00:05      -               -1.00      -1        -1    1

Log reads from disk: < 0 >

Replication hold LSN ...... 10/2656136
Last written LSN .......... 10/4015824
Last LSN forced to disk ... 10/3970152

The output from the script displays an updated status every 15 seconds until you enter Ctrl-C to exit.

Following the date in the output in Example 4-14 is the name of the subscriber, its host, and so on. Next is latency and rate information, as well as the number of transaction log files being retained on behalf of this subscriber. The specific meaning of each value is described in "Display subscriber status with the ttRepAdmin utility" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide. The main interest here is the 'Last Msg Sent' and 'Logs' values. The 'Last Msg Sent' value indicates the elapsed time since the last message was sent by the master to the subscriber and 'Logs' indicates how many transaction log files behind the replication log reader is from the current log insertion point used by the writers (Last written LSN).

Normally the 'Logs' value should be '1', as shown in Example 4-14. A steadily increasing 'Logs' value indicates latency is increasing and eventually log reads are satisfied from disk.

Note:

If the LogBufMB is larger than the LogFileSize, an increase in the 'Logs' value does not necessarily mean the log readers are reading from the transaction log files. This is because the log manager does not allow more than one log file's worth of data to be outstanding before writing it to the file system. After the log manager writes the data, the data remains in the log buffer to be read directly by the log readers. So, when the LogBufMB is larger than the LogFileSize, the 'Logs" value alone may not be the best measure of whether log readers are reading from memory or from disk.

The output from the following command displays the number of the transaction log files and the location of the bookmarks set by the log manager.

ttRepAdmin -bookmark -connStr dsn=$DSN

For more information, see "Monitor replication with the ttRepAdmin utility" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide. The difference between the Replication hold LSN and the last written LSN indicates the number of records in the transaction log that have not yet been transmitted to the subscribers. A steady increase in the difference between these values is another indication that replication latency is increasing and log file reads are likely to occur.

Example 4-15 Log reader must read from transaction log files

In this example, assume the LogBufMB is 16MB and the LogFileSize is 8MB. The following output indicates the log reader is approximately 1.8 MB behind the capacity of the log buffer and must read from the transaction log files, 14 and 15.

Peer name         Host name                Port    State   Proto
----------------  ------------------------ ------  ------- -----
SUBSCRIBER1DSN    MYHOST                   Auto    Start   12

Last Msg Sent Last Msg Recv Latency TPS     RecordsPS Logs
------------- ------------- ------- ------- --------- ----
00:00:03      -               -1.00      -1        -1    4

Log reads from disk: <20>

Replication hold LSN ...... 14/7007464
Last written LSN .......... 17/465336
Last LSN forced to disk ... 17/456152

Problems using ttRepAdmin

This section includes the following topics:

Problems when changing the state of a replication receiver

Problems using ttRepAdmin -duplicate

Returns 'Must specify -scheme' error

Problems when changing the state of a replication receiver

If you try to change the state of a replication receiver when replication has been configured to use a secondary IP address, a misconfiguration of the /etc/hosts file may cause ttRepAdmin to print the following error:

Alter replication with 'ALTER REPLICATION...port 0' failed:
TT0907: Unique constraint (REPSTORESIX) violated.

This error is caused by replication not recognizing the local database, which can be confirmed by the following query:

SELECT * FROM ttrep.ttstores WHERE is_local_store <> 0x0;

If this query returns no rows, or returns a row with the main host name of the database set to the result of the hostname command rather than the host you specified, you have encountered a configuration problem with the /etc/hosts file.

To correct the problem, make sure that the special host name you are using is defined in the /etc/hosts file and that there is an IP address in common between your special host name and the result of the hostname command.

For example, if the hostname command returns softswitch and your system has two Ethernet cards with the addresses 10.10.15.136 and 192.168.15.136, the IP addresses defined for softswitch should include both IP addresses.

Problems using ttRepAdmin -duplicate

Make sure that Timesten is installed with the same instance administrator on both the source system and target system. If so, then consider other causes:

Database created before duplication

Wrong database or host name

Database created before duplication

If you connected to your new subscriber DSN before running ttRepAdmin -duplicate, the database has already been created. In this situation, -duplicate returns:

Error : Restore not done : The datastore already exists.
Unable to restore datastore locally

Confirm the existence of the database by running ttStatus and checking to see if the database is in the returned list. If the new subscriber database exists, destroy it and try ttRepAdmin -duplicate again.

> ttDestroy /tmp/newstore
> ttRepAdmin -dsn newstoreDSN -duplicate -name newstore
-from masterds -host "server1"

Wrong database or host name

If you have made an error entering the subscriber database name or host name in the replication scheme, you may see something like the following:

Unable to swap datastore locally
No receiver NEWSTORE on SERVER2 found to swap with

If you provide an incorrect host name for a subscriber, you may receive this error:

Problem: ttRepAdmin -duplicate command returns TimesTen error 12080: No
subscriber found to swap with.

You also receive information about the subscriber that TimesTen is trying to locate. One common cause is providing an incorrect host name, which must be the exact same name as the host name provided when issuing the CREATE ACTIVE STANDBY PAIR statement. For example, if you created the subscriber with myhost.oracle.com, but only provided myhost in the ttRepAdmin -duplicate, the subscriber will not be found.

Note:

If myhost is the local host, use the -localhost argument. You typically need to use the -localhost argument if the local host name does not exactly match the host name provided when creating the replication scheme.

Returns 'Must specify -scheme' error

If you have more than one scheme specified in your TTREP.REPLICATIONS table, some ttRepAdmin commands may return the error:

Must specify -scheme to identify which replication scheme to use

To check the names of the replication schemes used by your database, use the ttIsql utility to connect, and enter:

Command> SELECT * from TTREP.REPLICATIONS;

Example 4-16 Two replication schemes assigned to the database

This example shows that two replication schemes, REPSCHEME1 and REPSCHEME2, are assigned to the database associated with subDSN. In this case, it is necessary to use the ttRepAdmin -scheme option.

> ttIsql -connStr "dsn=subDSN"
Command> SELECT * from TTREP.REPLICATIONS;
< REPSCHEME1      , REPL                , C, 0, 0, -1 >
< REPSCHEME2      , REPL                , C, 0, 0, -1 >
2 rows found.
Command> exit
> ttRepAdmin -dsn subDSN -receiver -list -scheme REPSCHEME1
Peer name         Host name                 Port    State  Proto
----------------  ------------------------ ------  ------- -----
SUBSCRIBER1        MYHOST                   Auto   Start      10

Last Msg Sent Last Msg Recv Latency TPS     RecordsPS Logs
------------- ------------- ------- ------- --------- ----
0:01:12       -               19.41       5        52    2

Problems with conflict checking

This section includes the following topics:

Column cannot be used for replication timestamp

Timestamp does not exist

Conflict reporting slows down replication

Column cannot be used for replication timestamp

When attempting to set CHECK CONFLICTS for an element in a CREATE REPLICATION statement, you may encounter an error similar to the following.

8004: Column REPL.TABS.TS cannot be used for replication timestamp checking if
in an index or added by ALTER TABLE; and must be binary(8) with NULL values allowed.

In this situation, check:

That the timestamp column in the specified table is a nullable column of type BINARY(8). In the above example, the TS column in the REPL.TAB table should have a type of BINARY(8).

The timestamp column is defined in the original CREATE TABLE statement, rather than added later using ALTER TABLE.

Timestamp does not exist

You may receive an error similar to the following:

2208: Column TS does not exist in table.

In this situation, confirm that you have specified the correct name for the timestamp column in the CHECK CONFLICTS clause and that it exists in the specified table.

Also, make sure the timestamp column is not part of a primary key or index.

Conflict reporting slows down replication

If you have configured replication to CHECK CONFLICTS, TimesTen sends reports to the local host. You can also configure a report file. See "Diagnostics through SNMP Traps" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps.

If there are many conflicts in a short period of time, subscriber performance can slow down because of the reporting requirements. You can use store attributes in the CREATE REPLICATION or ALTER REPLICATION statements to suspend and resume conflict reporting at specified rates of conflict:

CONFLICT REPORTING SUSPEND AT rate

CONFLICT REPORTING RESUME AT rate

Information about conflicts that occur while reporting is suspended cannot be retrieved.

See "Reporting conflicts" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

Problems with parallel replication

If you have configured parallel replication, then you have additional TimesTen replication threads running on your system. Be sure that you have enough CPU cores to accommodate the increased number of replication threads.

If you have configured user-defined track based parallel replication (ReplicationApplyOrdering = 1 and ReplicationParallelism > = 2), and you are seeing permanent errors on the receiver side that include constraint violations or row lookup failures, then possible causes include:

Application defined dependencies are incorrect

Operations for the same keys or keys of tables in a constraint relationship are written to different tracks.

Check the value of the general connection attribute, ReplicationTrack. All transactions executed by the connection are assigned to the track as defined in the ReplicationTrack attribute setting. Make sure the workload for each track is suitable. Use the ALTER SESSION statement to change the replication track. For more information, see "ALTER SESSION" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database SQL Reference. For more information on configuring parallel replication, see "Configuring parallel replication" in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Replication Guide.

5 Troubleshooting AWT Cache Groups

Creating an asynchronous writethrough (AWT) cache group automatically creates a replication scheme that enables the database to communicate with the Oracle database. You must start the replication agent after you create an AWT cache group and before you start the cache agent. See "Creating an AWT cache group" in the Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide for more details.

This chapter contains the following troubleshooting sections:

Replication agent not started

AWT performance monitoring

Possible causes of poor AWT performance

Oracle Database errors reported by TimesTen for AWT

Replication agent not started

The replication agent must be started in order for the AWT cache group to work. If the replication agent is not starting, use the information in Chapter 4, "Troubleshooting Replication " to troubleshoot the replication agent.

If you are unable to get replication working, the problem may solved by one or more of the following sections:

Possible Cause
See...

Replication agent will not start.
"Unable to start or stop replication agent"

There are SNMP traps for monitoring replication events.
"Using SNMP traps for notification of replication events"

TimesTen daemon or replication agents are not running.
"Check status of TimesTen daemon and replication agents"

Replication agents are not communicating.
"Check that replication agents are communicating"

Replication is not in Start state.
"Check replication state"

AWT performance monitoring

You can monitor the performance of asynchronous writethrough (AWT) cache groups to determine how much time is spent performing tasks in the AWT workflow.

The following sections describe how to enable the monitoring and the tools for viewing the results.

Enable AWT performance monitoring

Display AWT performance results with the ttRepAdmin utility

Using system tables to monitor AWT operations

Enable AWT performance monitoring

Use the ttCacheAWTMonitorConfig built-in procedure to enable monitoring for AWT cache groups. Ensure that the replication agent is running before calling ttCacheAWTMonitorConfig.

The following example enables monitoring and sets the sampling frequency to 16. A sampling factor of 16 is recommended for accuracy and performance.

Command> CALL ttCacheAWTMonitorConfig('ON',16);
< ON, 16 >
1 row found.

Display AWT performance results with the ttRepAdmin utility

Use the ttRepAdmin utility with the -awtmoninfo and -showstatus commands to display the monitoring results. The AWT monitoring statistics include the following:

TimesTen processing time: The total number of milliseconds spent in processing AWT transaction data since monitoring was enabled.

Oracle Database bookmark management time: The total number of milliseconds spent in managing AWT metadata on Oracle Database since monitoring was enabled.

Oracle Database execute time: The total number of milliseconds spent in OCI preparation, binding and execution for AWT SQL operations since monitoring was enabled. This statistic includes network latency between TimesTen and Oracle Database.

Oracle Database commit time: The total number of milliseconds spent in committing AWT updates on Oracle Database since monitoring was enabled. This statistic includes network latency between TimesTen and Oracle Database.

Time since monitoring was started.

Total number of TimesTen row operations: The total number of rows updated in AWT cache groups since monitoring was enabled.

Total number of TimesTen transactions: The total number of transactions in AWT cache groups since monitoring was enabled.

Total number of flushes to the Oracle database: The total number of times that TimesTen data has been sent to the Oracle database.

The percentage of time spent on TimesTen processing, Oracle Database bookmark management, Oracle Database execution and Oracle Database commits.

For example:

ttRepAdmin -showstatus -awtmoninfo myDSN

[other -showstatus output]
...
AWT Monitoring statistics
-------------------------
 TimesTen processing time : 8443.424000 millisecs (44.064958 )
   Oracle execute  (SQL execution) time : 8930.320000 millisecs (46.605994 )
   Oracle execute (PL/SQL execution) time : 0.000000 millisecs (0 )
   Oracle commit time : 1787.568000 millisecs (9.329048 )
   Time since monitoring was started: 21954.410000 millisecs
   CacheAwtMethod mode : 0
   Cache-connect Operational Stats :
      SQL Operations sent to Oracle : 143556
           Number of update operations : 58
           Number of update batches    : 58
           Number of insert operations : 143498
           Number of insert batches    : 1146
           Number of delete operations : 0
           Number of delete batches    : 0
           Total number of batches sent: 1204
           Number of bytes sent : 4769094
      Number of TimesTen Transactions sent to Oracle (includes retries) :
            143556
      Number of retries on TimesTen due to errors on Oracle : 0
      Number of round trips to Oracle (includes executes, commits and
            rollbacks) : 2290
      Number of commits on Oracle : 1086
      Number of rollbacks on Oracle : 0
      Number of rxbatches: 244
      Number of rxskips: 0

Peer name         Host name                 Port    State  Proto
----------------  ------------------------ ------  ------- -----
_ORACLE           MYHOST                    Auto   Start      27

Last Msg Sent Last Msg Recv Latency TPS     RecordsPS Logs
------------- ------------- ------- ------- --------- ----
00:00:00      -                2.35    6311      6311    1

Using system tables to monitor AWT operations

To determine whether asynchronous writethrough operations are keeping up with the rate of updates on cache tables in AWT cache groups, query the LAST_LOG_FILE, REPHOLD_LOG_FILE and REPHOLD_LOG_OFF columns of the SYS.MONITOR system table. If the difference between the value in the LAST_LOG_FILE column and the value in the REPHOLD_LOG_FILE column is increasing over time, and the value in the REPHOLD_LOG_OFF column is increasing slowly or not changing, then the tables are being updated at a faster rate than the updates are being replicated.

Then run a ttRepAdmin -receiver -list utility command and find the row where _ORACLE is in the Peer name field. View the values in the Last Msg Sent, Last Msg Recv, Latency and TPS fields within the same row to determine if the replication activity that is falling behind is asynchronous writethrough operations.

For more information about monitoring log files, see "Monitoring accumulation of transaction log files" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

The SYS.SYSTEMSTATS system table has a variety of statistics about AWT performance. See "SYS.SYSTEMSTATS" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database System Tables and Views Reference.

Possible causes of poor AWT performance

This section addresses issues that may degrade AWT cache group performance.

Possible cause
See...

Network is slow.
"Check network bandwidth"

Log buffer is too small.
"Check size of log buffer"

There are frequent or inefficient disk writes.
"Check durability settings"

Reading from transaction log files on disk instead of the log buffer.
"Check for reads from transaction log files"

There are problems on the Oracle database.
"Problems on the Oracle Database", below

Replication agent is down.
"Unable to start or stop replication agent" or "Replication does not work"

UNLOAD CACHE GROUP cannot complete if row updates are not propagated to the Oracle database.
"UNLOAD CACHE GROUP requires row updates to complete propagation", below

Problems on the Oracle Database

If an AWT cache group cannot propagate updates to the Oracle database, the causes can include network failure, an Oracle database failure, I/O bottlenecks and CPU bottlenecks.

AWT propagation to the Oracle database can also fail because the replication agent is stopped. See "Unable to start or stop replication agent" and "Replication does not work".

UNLOAD CACHE GROUP requires row updates to complete propagation

Execution of the UNLOAD CACHE GROUP statement for an AWT cache group waits until updates on the rows have been propagated to the Oracle database. However, the UNLOAD CACHE GROUP statement may fail if data propagation to the Oracle database is stopped for any reason, such as network failure, the Oracle database is down, or the replication agent is stopped.

Oracle Database errors reported by TimesTen for AWT

The following sections describe both permanent and transient Oracle Database errors that can be reported by TimesTen for an AWT cache group:

Permanent Oracle Database errors reported by TimesTen

Transient Oracle Database errors reported by TimesTen

Permanent Oracle Database errors reported by TimesTen

Insert, update, or delete errors that occur while applying changes to Oracle Database are saved in an error file located in the database directory with the following name:

DataSourceName.awterrs

Errors reported to this file are permanent errors. TimesTen does not retry the transaction. The errors may be reported in the AWT error file long after the commit to TimesTen occurs.

The format of the messages in the AWT error file is similar to those generated for conflict and transaction errors in replication, as shown in Example 5-1. Oracle Database error messages are also reported in the support log and the user log. The Oracle Database errors are prefixed with 'ORA-.' The TimesTen error messages are prefixed with 'TT.' For example, in Example 5-1, TimesTen errors 5210 and 5025 are shown as TT5210 and TT5025. These can be looked up in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps guide.

Example 5-1 Cache violation occurs when update is propagated to Oracle Database

If a constraint violation occurs when a cache group update is propagated to the Oracle database, the message in the AWT error file is similar to the following:

Error occurred 14:48:55 on 03-22-2011
Datastore: c:\temp\cgDSN
Oracle Id: system1
Transmitting name: cgDSN
Error message:
  TT5210: Oracle unique constraint violation error in OCIStmtExecute():
ORA-00001: unique constraint (GUSER.SYS_C00357240) violated rc = -1 -- file
 "bdbTblH.c", lineno 1205, procedure "ttBDbStmtForce()"
  TT5025: Commit failure in Oracle. Transaction must be rolled back in TimesTen.
-- file "bdbConnect.c", lineno 885, procedure "ttBDbXact()"

Operation that caused the error:
Insert into table TESTUSER.T1 <9,1000>

Failed transaction:
Insert into table TESTUSER.T1 <9, 1000>
End of failed transaction

Example 5-2 An object that TimesTen has placed on the Oracle database is dropped

If an object that TimesTen has placed on the Oracle database is dropped, the message in the AWT error file is similar to the following:

May 04 18:12:36 HOST1 TimesTen Replication 11.2[2136]:
[Err ] DEFAULT:meta.c(639):
TT16062: Failed to compile command:
select p.commit_timestamp, p.commit_seqnum, p.protocol from owner1.TT_06_REPPEERS
p where p.replication_name = :rname and p.replication_owner = :rowner and
p.tt_store_id = :oid and p.subscriber_id = :sid

May 04 18:12:36 HOST1 TimesTen Replication 11.2[2136]:
[Err ] DEFAULT:meta.c(639):
TT5221: TT5221: Oracle syntax error in OCIStmtExecute():
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist rc = -1 -- file "bdbStmt.c", lineno 1041,
procedure "getOraOutTypesNLengths()"

In this example, the TT_06_REPPEERS table does not exist. To recover from this error, perform the following tasks:

Stop the replication agent.

Drop and recreate the cache group.

Restart the replication agent.

Transient Oracle Database errors reported by TimesTen

The support log for databases with AWT cache groups may contain Oracle Database errors if the replication agent encounters a problem on the Oracle database. If the replication agent encounters one of these errors, AWT rolls back the transaction and retries it. If the support log becomes full, the oldest messages are deleted and replaced by new messages.

The Oracle Database errors in the support log are considered transient because AWT retries the transaction.

Some transient errors indicate an underlying problem on the Oracle database must be solved before AWT operations can continue. For example:

ORA-01536: space quota exceeded for tablespace
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

After the underlying problem has been fixed, AWT retries the operation.

The following Oracle Database errors are transient:

ORA-00018: maximum number of sessions exceeded
ORA-00019: maximum number of session licenses exceeded
ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (%s) exceeded
ORA-00025: failed to allocate %s
ORA-00028: your session has been killed
ORA-00038: Cannot create session: server group belongs to another user
ORA-00051: timeout occurred while waiting for a resource
ORA-00052: maximum number of enqueue resources (%s) exceeded
ORA-00053: maximum number of enqueues exceeded
ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified
ORA-00055: maximum number of DML locks exceeded
ORA-00057: maximum number of temporary table locks exceeded
ORA-00058: DB_BLOCK_SIZE must be %s to mount this database (not %s)
ORA-00059: maximum number of DB_FILES exceeded
ORA-00060: deadlock detected while waiting for resource
ORA-00063: maximum number of LOG_FILES exceeded
ORA-00064: object is too large to allocate on this O/S (%s,%s)
ORA-00099: timed out while waiting for resource, potential PDML deadlock
ORA-00104: deadlock detected; all public servers blocked waiting for resources
ORA-00107: failed to connect to ORACLE listener process
ORA-00115: connection refused; dispatcher connection table is full
ORA-00125: connection refused; invalid presentation
ORA-00126: connection refused; invalid duplicity
ORA-00284: recovery session still in progress
ORA-00370: potential deadlock during kcbchange operation
ORA-00371: not enough shared pool memory
ORA-00376: file %s cannot be read at this time
ORA-00379: no free buffers available in buffer pool %s for block size %sK
ORA-00384: Insufficient memory to grow cache
ORA-00568: Maximum number of interrupt handlers exceeded
ORA-00579: osndnt: server received malformed connection request
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s]
ORA-00603: ORACLE server session terminated by fatal error
ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded
ORA-01012: not logged on
ORA-01014: ORACLE shutdown in progress
ORA-01019: unable to allocate memory in the user side
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-01035: ORACLE only available to users with RESTRICTED SESSION privilege
ORA-01037: maximum cursor memory exceeded
ORA-01046: cannot acquire space to extend context area
ORA-01073: fatal connection error: unrecognized call type
ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted
ORA-01090: shutdown in progress - connection is not permitted
ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced
ORA-01094: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE in progress. Connections not permitted
ORA-01109: database not open
ORA-01147: SYSTEM tablespace file %s is offline
ORA-01154: database busy. Open, close, mount, and dismount not allowed now
ORA-01155: the database is being opened, closed, mounted or dismounted
ORA-01219: database not open: queries allowed on fixed tables/views only
ORA-01237: cannot extend datafile %s
ORA-01456: may not perform insert/delete/update operation inside a READ ONLY transaction
ORA-01536: space quota exceeded for tablespace '%s'
ORA-01539: tablespace '%s' is not online
ORA-01542: tablespace '%s' is offline, cannot allocate space in it
ORA-01562: failed to extend rollback segment number %s
ORA-01573: shutting down instance, no further change allowed
ORA-01628: max # extents (%s) reached for rollback segment %s
ORA-01629: max # extents (%s) reached saving undo for tablespace %s
ORA-01630: max # extents (%s) reached in temp segment in tablespace %s
ORA-01631: max # extents (%s) reached in table %s.%s
ORA-01632: max # extents (%s) reached in index %s.%s
ORA-01650: unable to extend rollback segment %s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01651: unable to extend save undo segment by %s for tablespace %s
ORA-01652: unable to extend temp segment by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01653: unable to extend table %s.%s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01654: unable to extend index %s.%s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01655: unable to extend cluster %s.%s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01656: max # extents (%s) reached in cluster %s.%s
ORA-01658: unable to create INITIAL extent for segment in tablespace %s
ORA-01659: unable to allocate MINEXTENTS beyond %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01680: unable to extend LOB segment by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01681: max # extents (%s) reached in LOB segment in tablespace %s
ORA-01683: unable to extend index %s.%s partition %s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01684: max # extents (%s) reached in table %s.%s partition %s
ORA-01685: max # extents (%s) reached in index %s.%s partition %s
ORA-01686: max # files (%s) reached for the tablespace %s
ORA-01688: unable to extend table %s.%s partition %s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment %s.%s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01692: unable to extend lob segment %s.%s partition %s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-01693: max # extents (%s) reached in lob segment %s.%s
ORA-01694: max # extents (%s) reached in lob segment %s.%s partition %s
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE
ORA-03134: Connections to this server version are no longer supported.
ORA-03135: connection lost contact
ORA-03136: inbound connection timed out
ORA-03232: unable to allocate an extent of %s blocks from tablespace %s
ORA-03233: unable to extend table %s.%s subpartition %s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-03234: unable to extend index %s.%s subpartition %s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-03235: max # extents (%s) reached in table %s.%s subpartition %s
ORA-03236: max # extents (%s) reached in index %s.%s subpartition %s
ORA-03237: Initial Extent of specified size cannot be allocated
ORA-03238: unable to extend LOB segment %s.%s subpartition %s by %s in tablespace %s
ORA-03239: maxextents (%s) reached in LOB segment %s.%s subpartition %s
ORA-04020: deadlock detected while trying to lock object %s%s%s%s%s
ORA-06019: NETASY: invalid login (connect) string
ORA-06021: NETASY: connect failed
ORA-06030: NETDNT: connect failed, unrecognized node name
ORA-06031: NETDNT: connect failed, unrecognized object name
ORA-06032: NETDNT: connect failed, access control data rejected
ORA-06033: NETDNT: connect failed, partner rejected connection
ORA-06034: NETDNT: connect failed, partner exited unexpectedly
ORA-06035: NETDNT: connect failed, insufficient resources
ORA-06036: NETDNT: connect failed, no response from object
ORA-06037: NETDNT: connect failed, node unreachable
ORA-06039: NETDNT: connect failed
ORA-06040: NETDNT: invalid login (connect) string
ORA-06108: NETTCP: connect to host failed
ORA-06113: NETTCP: Too many connections
ORA-06114: NETTCP: SID lookup failure
ORA-06143: NETTCP: maximum connections exceeded
ORA-06315: IPA: Invalid connect string
ORA-06316: IPA: Invalid database SID
ORA-06317: IPA: Local maximum number of users exceeded
ORA-06318: IPA: Local maximum number of connections exceeded
ORA-06319: IPA: Remote maximum number of users exceeded
ORA-06320: IPA: Remote maximum number of connections exceeded
ORA-06404: NETCMN: invalid login (connect) string
ORA-06413: Connection not open.
ORA-10435: enable tracing of global enqueue service deadlock detetction
ORA-10626: specify timeout for online index rebuild to wait for DML
ORA-10906: Unable to extend segment after insert direct load
ORA-12150: TNS:unable to send data
ORA-12151: TNS:received bad packet type from network layer
ORA-12152: TNS:unable to send break message
ORA-12153: TNS:not connected
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name
ORA-12155: TNS:received bad datatype in NSWMARKER packet
ORA-12156: TNS:tried to reset line from incorrect state
ORA-12157: TNS:internal network communication error
ORA-12158: TNS:could not initialize parameter subsystem
ORA-12159: TNS:trace file not writeable
ORA-12160: TNS:internal error: Bad error number
ORA-12161: TNS:internal error: partial data received
ORA-12162: TNS:service name is incorrectly specified
ORA-12163: TNS:connect descriptor is too long
ORA-12166: TNS:Client can not connect to HO agent.
ORA-12168: TNS:Unable to contact Directory Server.
ORA-12169: TNS:Net service name given as connect identifier is too long
ORA-12170: TNS:Connect timeout occurred
ORA-12171: TNS:could not resolve connect identifier: %s
ORA-12196: TNS:received an error from TNS
ORA-12197: TNS:keyword-value resolution error
ORA-12198: TNS:could not find path to destination
ORA-12200: TNS:could not allocate memory
ORA-12201: TNS:encountered too small a connection buffer
ORA-12202: TNS:internal navigation error
ORA-12203: TNS:unable to connect to destination
ORA-12204: TNS:received data refused from an application
ORA-12205: TNS:could not get failed addresses
ORA-12206: TNS:received a TNS error during navigation
ORA-12207: TNS:unable to perform navigation
ORA-12208: TNS:could not find the TNSNAV.ORA file
ORA-12209: TNS:encountered uninitialized global
ORA-12210: TNS:error in finding Navigator data
ORA-12211: TNS:needs PREFERRED_CMANAGERS entry in TNSNAV.ORA
ORA-12212: TNS:incomplete PREFERRED_CMANAGERS binding in TNSNAV.ORA
ORA-12213: TNS:incomplete PREFERRED_CMANAGERS binding in TNSNAV.ORA
ORA-12214: TNS:missing local communities entry in TNSNAV.ORA
ORA-12215: TNS:poorly formed PREFERRED_NAVIGATORS Addresses in TNSNAV.ORA
ORA-12216: TNS:poorly formed PREFERRED_CMANAGERS addresses in TNSNAV.ORA
ORA-12217: TNS:could not contact PREFERRED_CMANAGERS in TNSNAV.ORA
ORA-12218: TNS:unacceptable network configuration data
ORA-12219: TNS:missing community name from address in ADDRESS_LIST
ORA-12221: TNS:illegal ADDRESS parameters
ORA-12222: TNS:no such protocol adapter
ORA-12223: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded
ORA-12224: TNS:no listener
ORA-12225: TNS:destination host unreachable
ORA-12226: TNS:operating system resource quota exceeded
ORA-12227: TNS:syntax error
ORA-12228: TNS:protocol adapter not loadable
ORA-12229: TNS:Interchange has no more free connections
ORA-12230: TNS:Severe Network error ocurred in making this connection
ORA-12231: TNS:No connection possible to destination
ORA-12232: TNS:No path available to destination
ORA-12233: TNS:Failure to accept a connection
ORA-12235: TNS:Failure to redirect to destination
ORA-12236: TNS:protocol adapter not loaded
ORA-12316: syntax error in database link's connect string
ORA-12326: database %s is closing immediately;  no operations are permitted
ORA-12329: database %s is closed;  no operations are permitted
ORA-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process
ORA-12501: TNS:listener failed to spawn process
ORA-12502: TNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client
ORA-12504: TNS:listener was not given the SID in CONNECT_DATA
ORA-12505: TNS:listener could not resolve SID given in connect descriptor
ORA-12506: TNS:listener was not given the ALIAS in CONNECT_DATA
ORA-12507: TNS:listener could not resolve ALIAS given
ORA-12508: TNS:listener could not resolve the COMMAND given
ORA-12509: TNS:listener failed to redirect client to service handler
ORA-12510: TNS:database temporarily lacks resources to handle the request
ORA-12511: TNS:service handler found but it is not accepting connections
ORA-12512: TNS:service handler found but it has not registered a
redirect address
ORA-12513: TNS:service handler found but it has registered for a
different protocol
ORA-12514: TNS:listener could not resolve SERVICE_NAME given in
connect descriptor
ORA-12515: TNS:listener could not find a handler for this presentation
ORA-12516: TNS:listener could not find available handler with matching
protocol stack
ORA-12517: TNS:listener could not find service handler supporting direct handoff
ORA-12518: TNS:listener could not hand off client connection
ORA-12519: TNS:no appropriate service handler found
ORA-12520: TNS:listener could not find available handler for requested
type of server
ORA-12521: TNS:listener could not resolve INSTANCE_NAME given in
connect descriptor
ORA-12522: TNS:listener could not find available instance with given
INSTANCE_ROLE
ORA-12523: TNS:listener could not find instance appropriate for the
client connection
ORA-12524: TNS:listener could not resolve HANDLER_NAME given in
connect descriptor
ORA-12525: TNS:listener has not received client's request in time allowed
ORA-12526: TNS:listener: all appropriate instances are in restricted mode
ORA-12527: TNS:listener: all instances are in restricted mode or blocking
new connections
ORA-12528: TNS:listener: all appropriate instances are blocking new connections
ORA-12529: TNS:connect request rejected based on current filtering rules
ORA-12531: TNS:cannot allocate memory
ORA-12532: TNS:invalid argument
ORA-12533: TNS:illegal ADDRESS parameters
ORA-12534: TNS:operation not supported
ORA-12535: TNS:operation timed out
ORA-12536: TNS:operation would block
ORA-12537: TNS:connection closed
ORA-12538: TNS:no such protocol adapter
ORA-12539: TNS:buffer over- or under-flow
ORA-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded
ORA-12541: TNS:no listener
ORA-12542: TNS:address already in use
ORA-12543: TNS:destination host unreachable
ORA-12544: TNS:contexts have different wait/test functions
ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist
ORA-12546: TNS:permission denied
ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
ORA-12549: TNS:operating system resource quota exceeded
ORA-12550: TNS:syntax error
ORA-12551: TNS:missing keyword
ORA-12552: TNS:operation was interrupted
ORA-12554: TNS:current operation is still in progress
ORA-12555: TNS:permission denied
ORA-12556: TNS:no caller
ORA-12557: TNS:protocol adapter not loadable
ORA-12558: TNS:protocol adapter not loaded
ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
ORA-12561: TNS:unknown error
ORA-12562: TNS:bad global handle
ORA-12564: TNS:connection refused
ORA-12566: TNS:protocol error
ORA-12569: TNS:packet checksum failure
ORA-12570: TNS:packet reader failure
ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure
ORA-12574: TNS:redirection denied
ORA-12582: TNS:invalid operation
ORA-12583: TNS:no reader
ORA-12585: TNS:data truncation
ORA-12589: TNS:connection not bequeathable
ORA-12590: TNS:no I/O buffer
ORA-12591: TNS:event signal failure
ORA-12592: TNS:bad packet
ORA-12593: TNS:no registered connection
ORA-12595: TNS:no confirmation
ORA-12596: TNS:internal inconsistency
ORA-12600: TNS: string open failed
ORA-12602: TNS: Connection Pooling limit reached
ORA-12606: TNS: Application timeout occurred
ORA-12607: TNS: Connect timeout occurred
ORA-12608: TNS: Send timeout occurred
ORA-12609: TNS: Receive timeout occurred
ORA-12612: TNS:connection is busy
ORA-12615: TNS:preempt error
ORA-12623: TNS:operation is illegal in this state
ORA-12624: TNS:connection is already registered
ORA-12636: Packet send failed
ORA-12637: Packet receive failed
ORA-12829: Deadlock - itls occupied by siblings at block %s of file %s
ORA-12993: tablespace '%s' is offline, cannot drop column
ORA-14117: partition resides in offlined tablespace
ORA-14268: subpartition '%s' of the partition resides in offlined tablespace
ORA-16000: database open for read-only access
ORA-16003: standby database is restricted to read-only access
ORA-16403: shutdown in progress - remote connection is not permitted
ORA-16724: the intended state for resource has been set to OFFLINE
ORA-16903: Unable to connect to database
ORA-16914: Missing connect string. Try \"help\"
ORA-18014: deadlock detected while waiting for resource %s
ORA-21521: exceeded maximum number of connections in OCI (object mode only)
ORA-21522: attempted to use an invalid connection in OCI (object mode only)
ORA-23317: a communication failure has occurred
ORA-24401: cannot open further connections
ORA-24418: Cannot open further sessions.
ORA-24778: cannot open connections
ORA-25400: must replay fetch
ORA-25401: can not continue fetches
ORA-25402: transaction must roll back
ORA-25403: could not reconnect
ORA-25405: transaction status unknown
ORA-25407: connection terminated
ORA-25408: can not safely replay call
ORA-25409: failover happened during the network operation,cannot continue
ORA-25425: connection lost during rollback
ORA-29306: datafile %s is not online
ORA-30006: resource busy; acquire with WAIT timeout expired
ORA-30036: unable to extend segment by %s in undo tablespace '%s'
ORA-30040: Undo tablespace is offline
ORA-31443: deadlock detected while acquiring lock on %s
ORA-37013: (XSACQUIRE_DEADLOCK) Cannot wait to acquire object %j since doing so
would cause a deadlock.
ORA-44317: database open read-only

Index

A  B  C  D  E  F  H  I  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  X 

A

AgentTimeout parameter, 3.20.1.1

aging

monitoring, 1.5.7

alter replication

unique constraint violation, 4.8.1

ALTER REPLICATION

troubleshooting, 4.2

application

hanging, 2.9.1, 2.9.1

multithreaded issues, 2.9.3

asynchronous writethrough cache group, see AWT cache group

autorefresh

batch jobs, 3.16

diagnose, 3.20

Failed status, 3.14.4

fails, 3.11

fragmented change log tables, 3.20.4

full, 3.19

incremental, 3.19

interval too small, 3.20.5

lock timeout, 3.17.3

monitoring

change log tables, 3.14.2, 3.14.2

SQL script, 3.14.2

support log, 3.14.3

performance, 3.20, 3.20.2, 3.20.5

setting FREELISTS, 3.20.2

setting INITRANS, 3.20.2

trace, 1.5.8

AUTOREFRESH trace, 3.20

AWR report

DBMS_LOCK, 3.22

AWT cache group

dropped object, 5.4.1, 5.4.1

error log file, 5.4.1, 5.4.1

operation failure, 3.11

Oracle errors, 5.4.1, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.2

performance, 5.3

monitoring, 5.2, 5.2.2

replication problems, 5, 5.1

AWT performance

SYS.SYSTEMSTATS table, 5.2.3

using SYS.MONITOR table, 5.2.3

awterrs file, 5.4.1

B

base table

performance, 3.20.3

batch jobs

Oracle database, 3.16

buffer busy waits, 3.20.2

C

cache

DBMS_LOCK, 3.22

trigger

performance, 3.15

cache agent

problems starting, 3.2

cache grid

attach, 3.3

detach, 3.3

recover, 3.3

unexpected failure, 3.3

cache group

autorefresh fails, 3.11

AWT operation failure, 3.11

create failure, 3.21

DDL tracking, 3.11

load failure, 3.11

loading fails, 3.13

performance, 3.20.3

refreshing fails, 3.13

cacheInfo.sql script, 3.14.2

change log record

size, 3.19.2

change log table, 3.19.2

fragmentation, 3.20.4

CHECK CONFLICTS

timestamp problems, 4.9.1, 4.9.2

client/server

out of space, 2.5.10

problems, 2.5

thread stack overflow, 2.5.9

troubleshooting, 2.5, 2.5

conflict reporting

suspending, 4.9.3

connect identifier, 3.5

connection

maximum concurrent for server, 2.5.2

maximum number on Windows XP, 2.5.8

status, 1.3

thread stack overflow, 2.5.9

timeout, 3.6

create cache group

null constraint, 3.10

unsupported data type mapping, 3.9

CREATE SESSION privilege, 2.4.2

D

daemon

support log, 1.4

user error log, 1.4

datablock

availability, 3.15

DBMS_LOCK

contention, 3.22

dbms_shared_pool.keep procedure, 3.15

DDL

tracking, 3.11

DeadDbRecovery parameter, 3.20.1.1

DEADLOCK tracing, 1.5.4

deadlocks, 3.20.2

E

error

filesize limit exceeded, 2.12.7

log

AWT cache group, 5.4.1

out of memory, 2.12.5

tracing, 1.5.6

F

failures

server, 2.5.2

file size

limits, 2.12.7

tracing, 2.12.7

filesize limit exceeded error, 2.12.7

FREELISTS

setting, 3.20.2

H

hanging application, 2.9.1

I

INITRANS

setting, 3.20.2

ipcrm command, 2.4.6

ipcs command, 2.4.6

isolation

levels, 2.8.3

L

LOAD CACHE GROUP

failure, 3.13

lock

levels, 2.8.3

timeout, 1.6, 3.17.3

tracing, 1.5.5

LockLevel attribute, 2.8.3

log

daemon support log, 1.4

daemon user error log, 1.4

log buffer

replication, 4.7.4

log table

performance, 3.20.3

LogBufMB first connection attribute, 4.7.4

M

memory

shared

consumption, 2.12.1

used by query, 2.12.4

MONITOR table

AWT performance, 5.2.3

N

NOVALIDATE state

cache group failure, 3.21

O

OCI initialization failure, 3.8

ODBC

tracing, 1.7, 1.7

optimizer

update table statistics, 2.8.2

ORA-12154, 3.5

Oracle

client/server interoperability, 3.6

errors reported with AWT cache groups, 5.4.1

incompatible client/server versions, 3.6

support log for AWT cache group, 5.4.2

tablespace, 3.19.2

ORACLE_HOME

changing, 3.2.2

out of memory error, 2.12.5

out of space

client/server multiple connections, 2.5.10

P

parallel query

enable, 3.15

parallel replication, 4.10

performance

autorefresh cache group, 3.20.2

AWT cache group, 5.3

busy waits, 3.20.2

excessive deadlocks, 3.20.2

isolation levels, 2.8.3

large tables, 3.20.3

lock levels, 2.8.3

refresh, 3.20.2

row lock waits, 3.20.2

UNLOAD CACHE GROUP, 5.3.2

PermSize attribute, 2.4.6

primary key

VALIDATE state, 3.21

ps command, 2.4.6

Q

query

checking memory used, 2.12.4

R

Read Committed isolation level

SELECT gives duplicate results, 2.13

REFRESH CACHE GROUP

failure, 3.13

replication

agent

unable to stop or start, 4.3

log buffer, 4.7.4

performance

conflict reporting, 4.9.3

poor performance, 4.7

troubleshooting, 4, 4, 4.5, 5.1

rollbacks

tracing, 1.5.3

row lock waits, 3.20.2

S

sar reporting tool, 2.12.1, 2.12.1

SELECT statement

duplicate results, 2.13

semaphore

removal, 2.4.6

server

failures, 2.5.2

troubleshooting failures, 2.5.2

SGA

datablock

availability, 3.15

keep portion, 3.15

shared memory

estimate size, 2.4.6

maximum size reached, 2.4.6

query limits, 2.4.6

remove segment, 2.4.6

shared segment

too many in use, 2.3

unable to create, 2.3

SNMP traps, 1.8

replication, 4.4

space

monitoring, 1.5.3

troubleshooting low on space, 1.5.3

SQL tracing, 1.5.2

statement preparation

importance of, 2.8.3

support log

monitoring autorefresh, 3.14.3

Oracle errors, 5.4.2

SYS tables, 1.9

SYS.MONITOR table

AWT performance, 5.2.3

SYS.SYSTEMSTATS table

AWT performance, 5.2.3

system tables

monitoring, 1.9

troubleshooting contention, 2.9.3

T

tables

abnormally large, 3.20.3

large, 3.15

update statistics, 2.8.2

tablespace

cache administration user, 3.19.2

create, 3.19.2

diagnose, 3.19.3

full, 3.19.3, 3.19.5

managing, 3.19.5

monitor, 3.19.4

Oracle, 3.19.2

recovery, 3.19.5

set threshold warning, 3.19.4

TblSpaceFullRecovery parameter, 3.19.5

TblspaceThreshold parameter, 3.19.4

TempSize attribute, 2.4.6

thread

stack overflow, 2.5.9

thread stack overflow

multiple client connections, 2.5.9

tnsnames.ora identifier, 3.5

top reporting tool

vmstat tool, 2.12.1

tracing

AGING trace, 1.5.7

API trace, 1.5.3

AUTOREFRESH trace, 1.5.8

deadlocks, 1.5.4

error tracing, 1.5.6

file size, 2.12.7

how to turn on, 1.7

LOCK trace, 1.5.5

ODBC trace, 1.7

output format, 1.5.1

SQL trace, 1.5.2

transaction

log buffer, 4.7.4

log files

accumulation, 2.12.6, 2.12.6

triggers

performance, 3.15

troubleshooting, 3

ttCacheAutorefreshStatsGet procedure, 3.20

Failed status, 3.14.4

ttCacheAwtMonitorConfig built-in procedure, 5.2

ttCacheConfig built-in procedure, 3.19.4, 3.19.5, 3.20.1.1

ttCapture utility, 1.1

ttGridAttach utility, 3.3.1

ttGridDetachList utility, 3.3.1

ttIsql utility

using, 1.2

ttLockLevel procedure, 2.8.3

ttmodinstall utility

using, 3.2.2

ttOptSetFlag procedure, 2.8.3

ttOptUpdateStats procedure, 2.8.2

ttRepAdmin utility, 5.2.2, 5.2.3

alter replication

unique constraint violation, 4.8.1

changing receiver state, 4.8.1, 4.8.1

duplicate

database already created, 4.8.2

troubleshooting, 4.8.2

wrong database name, 4.8.2

wrong user name, 4.8.2

troubleshooting, 4.8

ttRepStart utility, 3.3.1

ttSize utility

estimate memory, 2.4.6

ttStatus utility

using, 1.3

ttTraceMon utility

AGING tracing, 1.5.7

API tracing, 1.5.3

AUTOREFRESH tracing, 1.5.8

DEADLOCK tracing, 1.5.4

error tracing, 1.5.6

LOCK tracing, 1.5.5

output format, 1.5.1

SQL tracing, 1.5.2

using, 1.5

ttXactAdmin utility

using for troubleshooting, 1.6

U

ulimit command, 2.4.6

UNIX

ipcrm command, 2.4.6

ipcs command, 2.4.6

ps command, 2.4.6

ulimit command, 2.4.6

UNLOAD CACHE GROUP

performance, 5.3.2

V

VALIDATE state

primary key, 3.21

vmstat reporting tool, 2.12.1

X

XLA

poor performance, 4.7

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