Affects:

Product (Component)	Oracle Server (PCW)
Range of versions believed to be affected	Versions BELOW 12.2
Versions confirmed as being affected	11.2.0.4
Platforms affected	Generic (all / most platforms affected)

Fixed:

The fix for 20186278 is first included in

12.2 (Future Release)

Description

BDB retension time suddenly change to 1094795585 or some other huge value.
This may cause crfclust.bdb file to grow in size, as crflogd tries to keep 
data for longer retention. 

When hitting this problem, crflogd.log may show the retention size being 
suddenly updated to a large size. 
 
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 2014-02-03 15:36:29.799: [ CRFLOGD][2363541248]updateDBRetention: new retention is 1094795585 seconds and 4702111234474983745 bytes
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Current retention value may be checked with following command. 
If the retention value (unit: seconds) shows a large value like 
1094795585, you are likely to have hit this problem.
 
 $ oclumon manage -get repsize
 CHM Repository Size = 1094795585

Modify BDBSIZE parameter in config file crf<hostname>.ora to 
adequately lower value. To do so, follow these steps:
 
1. Issue "$GI_HOME/bin/crsctl stop res ora.crf -init " on all the nodes of cluster.
2. Locate the config file $GRID_HOME/crf/admin/crf<hostname>.ora
3. Manually edit the crf<hostname>.ora file on every node of the cluster and
   change BDBSIZE tag entry and remove the value (set it to blank) or 
   set it to a desired value, eg. 61511. Do not delete the BDBSIZE tag itself.
4. Restart ora.crf daemon on every node.