A large number of values in /proc/diskstats causes Oracle to fail

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • A large number of SAN disks attached (and hence a large /proc/diskstats output) cause Oracle to fail. This happens when the number of entries is greater than 24,000.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • Oracle 11.2.0.2
  • Oracle 11.2.0.3

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