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Old 06-19-09, 16:42
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Application Snapshot - What info can help ?

Hi all,

We are having crash on the production server. This is a Gaming server.

We tried all except the application snapshot and Dynamic SQL. I will try to catch the snapshot info every 5 minutes and analyze it in real time.

Which columns from Snapshot_APPL and Snapshot_STATEMENT will be useful for my scenario below.

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The server starts to saturate on disk C drive and SWAP partition I drive.
The disk activity goes very high between 2:45am and 3:30 am this results in locks and applications being thrown away. Finally the system crashes and applications give up, and, disk activity starts to decline.

My manager is highly qualified in system management professional. he suggests that some DB operations might be responsible for it, he wants me to identify which agents (applications) give rise to disk activity.

Noticed that CPu remains normal during this crash. ( below 15%)
Please help me know what might be causing and what info from snapshots should I look for.

I decided to watch it happening in real time.

Thanks for expected guidance

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Old 06-20-09, 11:51
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You are experiencing SWAP activity, which to me means that you are experiencing memory issues. What DB2 version are you using? I take it you are on windows since you mention drive C. Is it 32 or 64 bit? How much memory?

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Old 06-20-09, 11:54
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DB2 v9.1.3 WSE 64 bit

Windows 2003 Server Standard 64 bit with 16GB memory and High speed Raid

The issue only started from 19 May.

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Old 06-20-09, 11:59
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What are you DBM and DB configuration parameters?

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Old 06-22-09, 10:50
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Check you mempools and memsets and see if you find anything.

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Old 06-22-09, 12:13
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We have reduced few bufferpools.
We are currently experiencing same issue. (right now)

I am trying to stop automatic rrunstats. Is there any command to stop or pause runstats.

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