High load of Linux server

From: Ignacio de Córdoba <icordoba_at_skios.es>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:10:09 +0200
Message-ID: <37CBB801.A6A66273@skios.es>

Hi there,
I am using Oracle server for Linux and have a problem with one of the processes (tnslsnr, TNS Listener). It comsumes most of the CPU, even setting its "nice" to 15:

1:06pm up 20 days, 0 min, 4 users, load average: 4.47, 3.74, 2.37 84 processes: 81 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 78.3% user, 15.0% system, 89.9% nice, 6.9% idle Mem: 95356K av, 65280K used, 30076K free, 23644K shrd, 18300K buff

Swap:  80288K av,  63796K used,  16492K free                  6224K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  633 root      19  15   808  580   376 R N     0 89.9  0.6 27061m tnslsnr
25949 icordoba   3   0   728  728   548 R       0  1.5  0.7   0:00 top

Is this normal? Anybody knows how can I solve this?

thanks and greetings from Madrid,
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Ignacio de Córdoba
Sistemas de Información SKIOS
Máquinas Inteligentes S.L. Received on Tue Aug 31 1999 - 06:10:09 CDT