2013-09-30

NFS mount options for Oracle database

OEM 12c job failed to create standby database for Oracle 10.2 on Oracle Linux.
NFS mounted staging area is used.
Production database alert log shows
ALTER DATABASE CREATE STANDBY CONTROLFILE AS '/mnt/software/oracle_CCASEPRD_linux/CCASEPRD_43/CONTROL_FILE_BACKUP_STANDBY_NO_RECOVERY'
ORA-00494: enqueue [CF] held for too long (more than 900 seconds) by 'inst 1, osid 2944'
which is also confirmed by SQLPLUS running the same command.
The problem is solved by using nolock option for NFS mount.
The following NFS options are successful:
rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,nolock,vers=3,timeo=600

Useful info on Oracle Support:
Mount Options for Oracle files when used with NFS on NAS devices (Doc ID 359515.1)
Howto Optimize NFS Performance with NFS options. (Doc ID 397194.1)
Poor Performance of APPS 11i or 12 When Using Shared APPL_TOP with NAS (Doc ID 802704.1)

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