Re: Problem with some ORACLE.EXE (SHAD) processes

From: David Ramírez Reyes <dramirezr_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:12:29 -0500
Message-ID: <CAJt=wvXy3j=HzXntqiXgGkOPjAYurz3MqGh3Z3d46w2VPn8GSQ_at_mail.gmail.com>



By the way, there are no errors on the error log for the DB or listener.

Regards

David Ramírez Reyes
Profesión: Padre de Familia

On 25 September 2013 13:07, David Ramírez Reyes <dramirezr_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have an Oracle 11g R2 over a windows server 2008 (am the first of hating
> Windows, but that's what I have...); it has 10 GB of SGA, 500 process limit
> -400 processes avg-, db on archive mode.
>
> The server has 16 GB of physical memory and 8 cpu cores.
>
> Now the problem is this:
>
> On the last days, the cpu usage has been growing up about every 12-16
> hours, it starts at 8-10 avg, then goes to 28-35, then 65-75, 90-95 and
> then 100 pick, once it goes to 100% the db hungs (and the server itself
> hungs) and there's no other solution than restart the instance.
>
> All this cpu is used by oracle.exe so, I dowloaded a tool to monitor the
> specific processes cpu usage at OS Level (MS Process Explorer) and I notice
> that the heavy load of cpu usage is on 6 processes which are the following:
>
> SYSTEM 190 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD)
> SYSTEM 25 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD)
> SYSTEM 5 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD)
> SYSTEM 211 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD)
> SYSTEM 167 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD)
> SYSTEM 2 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD)
>
> This is something strange because I have 3 similar instances on another
> server with exactly the same characteristics and I have no problem, even
> cpu usage goes between 10-20%.
>
> Does anybody has an idea of how to know which Oracle processes are related
> to these (SHAD) processes?, I even stop the EMC for some time without any
> difference.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> David Ramírez Reyes
> DBA
>
>

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