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Re: CPU Pegged at 100%

From: Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 06:53:37 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00451D24.20020429065337@fatcity.com>


On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:59:18AM -0800, Thomas Day wrote:
>
> I don't think that increasing the db_writer_processes will help. NT is, as
> noted elsewhere, multi-threaded. Increasing the db_writer_processes will
> not start a new process.
>
> My experience with Oracle on NT is that when the CPU is pegged at 100% it
> is because the OS is constantly writing and fetching the contents of RAM to
> the swapfile.
>

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If this is the case for this problem, we have found that changing
the location of the os paging file onto another disk and controller
can help performance.  See your windows clicking friends to find
out where to click.  It is somewhere under my computer...read
the man page on it ;)
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