Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU - Summary and last post

2001-08-30 Thread Jerry C
! - Jerry - Original Message - From: "Connor McDonald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 5:27 AM Subject: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Agreed - and Sun doesn't handle getting "

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-30 Thread yong huang
Hi, Jerry, Next time you see top output like shown below, please provide this information: In SQL*Plus: select * from v$session_wait where sid = (select sid from v$session where paddr = (select addr from v$process where spid = 2286)); may need to run it a few times. Post it to the list (or

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-30 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Jerry, Be aware that the system performance degardes drastically while truss is running. Rao Maheswara Rao -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Jerry, Next time you see top output like shown below, please provide

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-30 Thread Mohan, Ross
Huh? system performance? URL or source paper, please! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jerry, Be aware that the system performance degardes drastically while truss is running. Rao Maheswara Rao -Original

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-29 Thread Connor McDonald
Agreed - and Sun doesn't handle getting close to the edge at all well imho. Recently upgraded a db on (2.6) server from 8.0 to 8.1.6 and it went from running fine to running like an absolute dog - kernel thrashing exactly like our initial poster reports... ... The problem? java_pool_size (and

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-29 Thread Guy Hammond
, August 28, 2001 10:46 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Guy, Thank you very very much, this is a great explanation, and is much appreciated. To answer some of your questions (and add a few!): Yes, our client is experiencing

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Christopher Spence
ay, August 28, 2001 11:20 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Hi there, I have a Sun e4500, running Solaris 2.7 and Oracle8.1.7.1.0. Everything looks normal from a database perspective, but when I run "top" it show the kernel be

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Christopher Spence
ubject: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Hi there, I have a Sun e4500, running Solaris 2.7 and Oracle8.1.7.1.0. Everything looks normal from a database perspective, but when I run "top" it show the kernel being very hog-like: load averages: 14.38, 15.18, 15.18 07:16:

Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread George Schlossnagle
Title: Message Are you running software raid 10 or software raid 5 on that box? - Original Message - From: Christopher Spence To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:30 PM Subject: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Also

Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Jerry C
again, Jerry - Original Message - From: Christopher Spence To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:30 PM Subject: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU paging and swapping is the first thing that comes to mind, look at vmstat

Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Jerry C
PM Subject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Thanks for the reply, Chris. I'm a bit ashamed, being as old as I am, that I don't have a better grasp on swapping. I initially thought maybe it was a swap problem also, but top shows 0.0% swap. I thought I had also checked vmstat

Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread George Schlossnagle
, August 28, 2001 4:16 PM Subject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Does anybody know how I can see how much memory each process is using under Solaris. On Digital UNIX it was ps -aux, if I remember correctly... Thanks! Jerry - Original Message - From

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Rao, Maheswara
-LSubject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Does anybody know how I can see how much memory each process is using under Solaris. On Digital UNIX it was ps -aux, if I remember correctly... Thanks! Jerry - Original Message - From: Jerry C To: [EMAIL

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU OOOH yea. Looks like your machinie is awful darn busy ! Lisa Koivu Certified MOnkey and DBA Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message- From: Jerry C [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:01 PM To: Multiple

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Henry Poras
, August 28, 2001 2:58 PM Subject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Thanks for the reply, Chris. I'm a bit ashamed, being as old as I am, that I don't have a better grasp on swapping. I initially thought maybe it was a swap problem also, but top shows 0.0

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Christopher Spence
ford 01863 -Original Message-From: Jerry C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:01 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Thanks for the reply, Chris. I'm a bit ashamed, being as old as I am, that I don't hav

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Christopher Spence
28, 2001 4:17 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Does anybody know how I can see how much memory each process is using under Solaris. On Digital UNIX it was ps -aux, if I remember correctly... Thanks! Jerry - Origin

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread John Kanagaraj
Jerry, I think it is time to look at what's happening inside the database. The following queries will give us an overall idea.. select * from v$system_event order by total_waits desc select event, count(*) from v$session_wait group by event I have a feeling that you may see a lot of waits

Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Jerry C
Hammond To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:45 PM Subject: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Hi Jerry, Firstly, the kernel is not a process in the conventional sense. It is basically a set of library func

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Kevin Lange
ORACLE-LSubject: Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Guy, Thank you very very much, this is a great explanation, and is much appreciated. To answer some of your questions (and add a few!): Yes, our client is experiencing performance problems. vmstat and swap -s seem

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread John Kanagaraj
Jerry, Riyaj is right - latch contention would not show up against the kernel counters. A cursory glance shows that there is no problem from your database side of things. I would pursue the options suggested by Riyaj and Kevin... John -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Re: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Jerry C
everybody for your suggestions! - Jerry - Original Message - From: "John Kanagaraj" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 5:36 PM Subject: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU