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RE: Which process is taking up so much CPU???

From: Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha <oraperfman_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:14:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00574759.20030327101438@fatcity.com>


Mark et. al,

Just a caveat based on a personal observation. For pre-9i databases on some OS platforms(sorry it has been a while so I can't remember the exact details), the "CPU used by this session" metric had some accounting issues and hence reflected much higher values (by orders of magnitude) than its counterpart - "CPU used when call started". Usually "CPU used by this session" is higher than its counterpart, but not by too much.

On those versions, "CPU used when call started" provides a more accurate indication of CPU usage. This was fixed in 9i. Having said that the preferred metric to be used should be "CPU used by this session", as this metric gets updated "more often" than the other. "CPU used when call started" gets updated before "a call is started" (parse, execute, fetch). Thought this may be something for folks to keep in mind while using them in queries.

Cheers,

Gaja



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