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Re: How to determine what session is using lot of Oracle

From: Oliver Artelt <oli_at_md.transnet.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:55:10 +0100
Message-Id: <10707.124247@fatcity.com>


How about profiles?

oli

On Monday 11 December 2000 20:52, maa25681_at_GlaxoWellcome.com wrote:
> We have the same problem in our Solaris and HP-UX environments. Here are a
> couple of simple tricks I use:
>
> * When I have a runaway process that has a lot of UNIX execution time
> (ps -ef), I check the start time of the UNIX process and the LOGON_TIME
> column of V$SESSION. The 2 times usually match.
> * Not knowing who the culprit usually disturbs me. Sometimes I can
> Select the OSUSER column from V$SESSION to find out which person has which
> login session.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Michael Armstead
> Database Administrator, OCP-Certified
> Corporate & Finance Information Systems
> Glaxo Wellcome
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cale, Rick T (Richard) [SMTP:RICHARD.T.CALE_at_saic.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:46 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: How to determine what session is using lot of Oracle
> > resources
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > There is an application where everyone uses the same login. One of the
> > processes is using a lot
> > of resources. How can I determine what session it is so I can use alter
> > system kill session.
> > NT 4 Oracle 8.0.5
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rick Cale, Science Applications International Corp.
> > Phone:865-481-2198, fax:865-481-8555
> > e-mail: caler_at_saic.com
> >
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