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OSW Watcher spanwed thousands of processes: /bin/sh ./OSWatcher.sh 10 192 gzip

edited Oct 28, 2014 11:24AM in Database Tuning (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered

The customer enabled the  OSW private interconnect monitoring yesterday and both nodes ran spawn thousands of processes like the ones below causing an outage this morning 5 AM.

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File:xxxxxps_14.10.14.0500.dat
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AIX OSWbb v6.0.1

zzz ***Tue Oct 14 05:06:36 EDT 2014

  40001 A   oracle 50479212 33243234   0  68 24 ab4c22480 12016 05:18:31      -  0:00 /bin/sh ./OSWatcher.sh 10 192 gzip
40001 A   oracle 50544732 48709696   0  68 24 e9276f480 5324          05:13:57      - 0:00 /bin/sh ./OSWatcher.sh 10 192 gzip
40001 A   oracle 50610238 27475336   0  68 24 5947de480 6740          05:24:07      - 0:00 /bin/sh ./OSWatcher.sh 10 192 gzip
40001 A   oracle 50675738 36913222   0  68 24 e4936d480 1288          05:11:40      - 0:00 /bin/sh ./OSWatcher.sh 10 192 gzip
40001 A   oracle 50741330  7225584   0 255 24 8e5a08480 16068          05:20:05      - 0:00 [sh]

The customer is urgently asking for RCA as it caused an production outage.



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