From Henry.Poras@ctp.com Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:38:26 -0700 From: Henry Poras Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:38:26 -0700 Subject: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Title: Message ps -l will give the size in pages. The size of a page in bytes is given by pagesize.   Henry -----Original Message-----From: Jerry C [mailto:usidba@YAHOO.COM]Sent: Tuesday, August 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
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From: Jerry C To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Sent: Tuesday, 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% swap. I thought I had also checked vmstat earlier, but yikes:   csuaor46> csuaor46> vmstat 15 20 procs     memory            page            disk          faults      cpu r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr s6 s1 s1 s5   in   sy   cs us sy id 2 0 0  15352 14472  68 1513 14 227 953 56488 260 0 2 2 0 638 78  933 25 24 50 11 0 0 6240696 63336 105 1759 41 246 1754 62760 545 0 8 8 0 1130 4956 773 22 76 1 11 0 0 6243360 62864 42 2594 82 236 2357 62760 757 0 7 6 0 1239 6960 987 40 60 1 8 0 0 6238120 62368 48 1746 25 260 3767 56488 1198 0 7 6 0 1052 4837 762 36 63 1 8 0 0 6239640 65200 33 1772 229 262 2092 62760 619 0 16 16 0 1232 5776 871 28 70 2 5 1 0 6247656 62440 57 2078 162 497 4025 62760 1308 0 15 15 0 1216 5808 815 21 75 4 5 0 0 6247776 63456 26 2445 149 285 2716 62760 2188 0 11 13 0 1164 6593 903 17 79 4 10 1 0 6240680 62648 80 3008 266 523 4527 62760 9226 0 25 25 0 1127 6725 884 22 76 2 6 0 0 6218216 68664 33 2251 66 105 1086 62760 377 0 6 6 0 847 20782 744 31 67 2 5 0 0 6201240 62840  9 1799 72 350 2490 62760 415 0 9 9 0 1207 8889 781 15 80 5 5 0 0 6199336 62760  6 1935 40 923 3564 62760 636 0 9 9 0 1373 5193 1082 21 69 10 10 0 0 6189552 63840 11 1476 33 722 3089 62760 548 0 9 8 0 1364 4530 957 21 77 2 10 0 0 6174304 70704 25 2705 86 759 6441 62760 1003 0 10 10 0 1258 5551 836 29 67 4 8 0 0 6186512 63824 51 1728 44 227 1413 56488 188 0 9 7 0 1319 4485 676 31 68 0 7 0 0 6196448 63064 49 1635 44 235 1179 62760 167 0 4 4 0 1207 4968 694 39 61 1 9 0 0 6188656 63872 11 1915 112 433 2065 62760 308 0 13 12 0 1140 4835 828 37 62 1   Do the pi (page in) and po (page out) statistics represent swapping?!     Thanks again,   Jerry
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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.   I think your question is completely on topic.   "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:    (707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863   -----Original Message-----From: Jerry C [mailto:usidba@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, 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 Oracle 8.1.7.1.0. 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                                     07:16:21126 processes: 118 sleeping, 4 running, 4 on cpuCPU states:  0.6% idle, 26.6% user, 72.8% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swapMemory: 4096M real, 63M free, 216M swap in use, 5310M swap free     PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND 2286 oracle     1   0    0 1844M 1814M run     9:44 13.90% oracle11068 oracle     1   0    0 2056K 1536K cpu0    0:02  1.53% top11333 oracle     1   0    0 1150M 1124M cpu1    0:01  1.39% oracle 5944 oracle     1  40    0 1820M 1789M sleep  14:40  1.36% oracle 4797 root       1  50    0 2112K 1248K sleep   6:01  1.36% top11346 oracle     1   0    0  110M   92M cpu0    0:01  1.26% oracle11114 oracle     1   0    0 1009M  984M cpu1    0:00  0.66% oracle11157 oracle     1   0    0 1009M  984M run     0:00  0.63% oracle11368 oracle     1  33    0 1794M 1765M sleep   0:00  0.29% oracle19558 oracle     1  60    0 1797M 1751M sleep  78:28  0.28% oracle19554 oracle     1  60    0 1794M 1751M sleep  38:05  0.20% oracle11366 oracle     1  55    0 1793M 1763M sleep   0:00  0.19% oracle11292 oracle     1  26    2 2008K 1424K run     0:00  0.19% dsql   Any ideas on what I, as a lowly DBA, would be able to check? It's a bit out of my area and I'm stumped...     Thanks!   Jerry