Re: Shared Server chewing up CPU

Additional info:

We switched our app over to use dedicated servers and saw the same thing happen, but with the dedicated server process chewing up CPU instead of a shared server process.

Steve

stevec_at_ditdash.com (Steve Croft) wrote in message news:<7d7cdd64.0106211400.7ce90847_at_posting.google.com>...
> Sorry for the confusion. We have many Sun boxes and only a single
> Oracle instance on each; most are configured for Multi-Threaded
> Server. We have a mix of 8.1.7 and 8.1.7.1 throughout our shop.
>
> The problem I described is happening on one of the 8.1.7 systems and
> on one of the 8.1.7.1 systems. These two happen to be the most
> heavily used systems. They are also configured for MTS (they are not
> the only ones, though).
>
> To re-state the problem, every once in awhile we see a shared server
> process hang, utilizing 100% of a cpu. We've seen it on 8.1.7 and
> with the 8.1.7.1 patch applied so the patch doesn't help. The process
> hangs until we kill it.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> "Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote in message news:<3B323057.FC72417B_at_attws.com>...
> > Steve Croft wrote:
> >
> > > I am having a problem with shared servers in 8.1.7 and 8.1.7.1. A
> > > shared server will sometimes start using up 100% of its CPU. It
> > > continues until the shared server process is killed. Anyone see this
> > > kind of behaviour or know if there is a patch?
> > >
> > > Our systems are Sun SPARC (some single- and multi-processor), Solaris
> > > 8, and Oracle 8.1.7/8.1.7.1 - but we only see the problem on two of
> > > the systems.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Steve
> >
> > Are you saying that on a single server you are simultaneously running two
> > different versions of Oracle against different instances?
> >
> > And if so ... why?
> >
> > Daniel A. Morgan
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 11:06:46 CDT