DAR wrote:
>
> When my instance of Oracle is running, my hard drive light is constantly
> glowing. No applications are running. When I display Window's Task Manager
> and view Processes, ORACLE80.EXE is using a large share of Memory (Mem
> Usage) and CPU. The CPU and Mem Usage constantly change. If I stop this
> instance of Oracle, my hard drive light stops glowing.
>
> When I query the table sys.gv_$session_event, the row where "event" = "db
> file sequential read" and "sid" = 5 has it's "total_waits" in the tens of
> millions. Every time I requery, it increases rapidly.
>
> I have other PC on my network, but the problem occurs whether they're turned
> on or off.
>
> I've turned on auditing but I'm not sure what to audit. I have 5 or 6
> tablespaces.
>
> I'm running Oracle 8.0.5 on Win 2000 Pro. Any suggestions will be
> appreciated.
How big is the SGA? Are there any tasks running from DBMS_JOBS? How
big are your redo logs? etc. etc.
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Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Tue Sep 25 2001 - 17:58:53 CDT
