Neil,
A followup on JL's indication of CPU usage. You can use the following script
on most *nix platforms to determine the top CPU consumers - either across
all processes, as well as for a specific string such as a DB SID ($1).
#!/bin/ksh
uptime
echo "PID %CPU RUSER CPUTIME ELAPSED COMMAND"
if [ $# == 1 ]; then
ps -eo pid,pcpu,ruser,time,etime,args | grep $1 | sort -nr +1 |
head -20 | awk '{print substr($0,1,80)}'
else
ps -eo pid,pcpu,ruser,time,etime,args | sort -nr +1 | head -20 |
awk '{print substr($0,1,80)}'
fi
The interesting aside is that you can quickly identify a CPU-hungry process
by comparing the CPUTIME and ELAPSED time - if they are close, you have
found a possible culprit. Remember that the 'get-miss-spin-sleep' cycle is
going to consume a lot of CPU in the spin phase. If you aren't able to fix
the Forms, then you could alleviate the pain little bit by reducing the
_spin_count. (I had tried this in desperation on a Sequent box many moons
ago.) Basically, you are facilitating more CPU bandwidth at the risk of
inducing more occurences of sleep for 'bad' sessions, and that may be good
overall as this might help in reducing the 'waits holding' occurrences. I
believe this parameter has been obsoleted in the later versions, but I am
suggesting this as you did not mention a specific version.
As ever, YMMV!
John Kanagaraj
Oracle Applications DBA
DBSoft Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harvey Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:25 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Excessive library cache latch contention
>
>
> Jonathan,
>
> I think you've got a point on all three counts. I am seeing
> an imbalance of
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