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RE: 10g Performance: its crawling

From: Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:28:44 -0800
Message-ID: <5D2570CAFC98974F9B6A759D1C74BAD0023410AE@ex2.ms.polyserve.com>


>
> The issue we all forget is this: The "Wait Interface" records the last
> _instrumented_ *wait* event. The process has then moved on to
executing in
> the CPU. However, since there is not "Waiting for CPU" event (and this
is
> not necessarily a "wait" event!!), what you need to do is to look at
the
> "SESSION_STATE" column, and you _will_ see "ON CPU" for this event.
What

Don't forget that Oracle doesn't really know if it is running or Not when it comes to precess state. For instance, if a session is marked "ON CPU" it can also be swapped out. Oracle is user mode code.

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