I can't really tell, but I can guess. TOP only shows a bunch of oracle processes, but...
At least one of them is the Oracle Enterprise Manager, with does performance and such. Another one is the log process. It closes a 10MB log file about every 50 minutes under idle conditions. Much more frequent when active. And Oracle OEM has its own scheduler which pops to see if it needs to do anything. I can run without OEM, and get rid of much of the overhead. But then when a bad query comes along, I have no way of knowing, unless it gets to the point of users complaining to the help desk. With it, I look at the historic charts, see nothing, and do something else. So right now, I'm back to multiple applications per database (the way god intended <G>) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. >>> Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/2/2008 3:56 PM >>> On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > Of course. Does Oracle itself poll ridiculously often? Can you tell what processes are running in the "idle" guests that are sucking down CPU? Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
