Thanks, John.

Any insight as to why is it primarily the system mode
CPU? I've seen high system mode CPU utilization in
non-Oracle stuff (like NFS), but for Oracle I thought
it should be primarily user mode?

Does Oracle's "CPU used by this session" represents
user-, kernel-mode or both? And what about "c" in the
raw traces?

Thanks John,
Boris Dali.

 --- John Kanagaraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Boris,
> 
> The default statspack snapshot is at level 5, which
> collects Top SQL (by
> buffer and Phys reads, etc.) from the Shared pool,
> and that would cause
> significant latching for a large shared pool which
> in turn results in a high
> CPU usage. You could try a level 0 snapshot and look
> at the CPU utilization
> at that time...
> 
> John Kanagaraj
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Boris Dali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:05 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: statspack snapshots cause 3-4 sec of 100%
> CPU utilization
> > 
> > 
> > As subject line indicates standard (level 5)
> snapshots
> > make "vmstat 1" or "sar  -u 1 100"  show 100% CPU
> > utilization (75% system mode) for about 3 seconds.
> > 
> > Is this normal? Is statspack that brutal on CPU?
> And
> > why would that be a system mode primarily?
> > 
> > Environment:
> > 
> > Oracle 9.2.0.2 on Mandrake 9.0
> > (2.4.19-16mdkenterprise)
> > 2.4GHz uniprocessor P4 box, 1GB SDRAM
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Boris Dali.
> > 
> > 
> >
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