Re: Instance has a process running constantly

Thanks for responding Paul.

I don't remember configuring any agents. How would I know if any agents are running?

"Paul Drake" <paled_at_home.com> wrote in message news:3BB1757C.8B357E8E_at_home.com...
> what agents do you have configured?
> if it was 8.1 - I'd say it was somthing like Oracle intelligent agent
> or snmp agent, or some 3rd party monitoring tool run amuck.
>
> 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.
Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 09:59:42 CDT