It isn't clear to me exactly what you are saying but yes Oracle will
certainly use all available CPUs in a machine. You probably have 4 or more
active processes (threads) on this instance all doing CPU intensive work.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"moosandl" <ralf.moosandl_at_nkk.de> wrote in message
news:bdetsd$s9fin$1_at_ID-73934.news.dfncis.de...
> hi group,
>
> I am collecting facts about the topic above
> regarding oracle 8.1.7 ( .3 SE) and w2k-server and one SID
> with heavy workload.
> and I am very interested in your experiences and comments,
> as I do not understand why one (of 10 different machines)
> shows a maximum CPU-load of about 100% at a 4-CPU-machine.
> All the other machines show me 25% as a CPU-load-maximum
> - by the way, this is what I expect.
>
> In my opinion one oracle.exe consumes 100% of only one CPU
> as a maximum and
> this CPU-load is shared via the OS with all other CPUs.
>
> thank you,
> ralf moosandl
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 26 2003 - 09:43:47 CDT
