Re: {bb} Further Info on BBNT vs Oracle

[Kyle Amon <kyle.amon@sagemaker.com>]

Thanks for posting.  I too am very interested in this problem.

- Kyle

Ed Vazquez wrote:
> 
> Looking at this in a bit more detail:
> 
> BBNT failure started in early January.
> 
> On the systems where the failures are happening, the DBA's updated Oracle NT
> to version 8.0.5.2.2 on January 12th, with a reboot on the 16th during the
> maintenance window.  BBNT stopped reporting on the 16th at 20:00 according
> to the history files.
> 
> According to the "updates" file included with the patch, Oracle "fixed" some
> memory overflow, network communication and Perfmon interaction errors.  When
> I look at the expanded patch file, it appears that all of the MSCVRT files
> are changed as well as the KERNEL32.DLL file.
> 
> Now that the patch is in, even disabling all ORAPERF functions and all
> PERFMON functions in the registry doesn't help with BBNT.  On systems that
> have not been patched yet, BBNT still functions properly.
> 
> I'm currently waiting for a new system to be brought up with Oracle, at
> which time I will run a file and registry monitor during the process and
> post the changed files.
> 
> In the mean time, I hope that this helps in providing a direction to look
> for potential conflicts.
> 
> If anyone has suggestions on what to look for or try next in order to fix
> this, I'm all ears.  With the new system scheduled to come up sometime this
> month, I've got a promise from the DBA's that they will allow me to
> experiment with settings, etc. before it goes live for production.
> 
> Ed Vázquez
> Systems Administrator
> Service Metrics, Inc; An Exodus Corporation
> http://www.servicemetrics.com/
> 303.381.2371
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