Parallel threads is parallel proces

From: HansP <hans-peter.sloot_at_atosorigin.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 00:12:10 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <389f6834-d22a-45ef-ad7f-dae3826c0796@f37g2000pri.googlegroups.com>


Hello all,

On one of our Solaris 5.10 systems we have a database running Oracle 10.2.0.3.
We have parallel_max_servers set to 100.

I was surprised to see that a ps -Lef shows 258 parallel threads per parallel server process.

See output below.

 ps -ef|grep p00

  oracle 20780     1   0   Sep 02 ?         776:08 ora_p007_P835
  oracle 20776     1   0   Sep 02 ?         525:32 ora_p005_P835
  oracle 20778     1   0   Sep 02 ?         517:40 ora_p006_P835
  oracle 20784     1   0   Sep 02 ?         532:26 ora_p009_P835
  oracle 20782     1   0   Sep 02 ?         531:50 ora_p008_P835
  oracle 20774     1   0   Sep 02 ?         498:28 ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20768     1   0   Sep 02 ?         496:59 ora_p001_P835
  oracle 20770     1   0   Sep 02 ?         495:00 ora_p002_P835
  oracle 20772     1   0   Sep 02 ?         543:02 ora_p003_P835
  oramgr 17883 17839   0 09:03:29 pts/3       0:00 grep p00
  oracle 20766     1   0   Sep 02 ?         586:22 ora_p000_P835


 ps -Lef|grep 20774
  oracle 20774     1     1   258   0   Sep 02 ?         451:42
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     2   258   0   Sep 02 ?           0:12
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     3   258   0   Sep 02 ?           0:00
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     4   258   0   Sep 02 ?           8:55
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     5   258   0   Sep 02 ?           0:05
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     6   258   0   Sep 02 ?           9:01
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     7   258   0   Sep 02 ?           0:05
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     8   258   0   Sep 02 ?           8:54
ora_p004_P835
  oracle 20774     1     9   258   0   Sep 02 ?           0:05
ora_p004_P835..
...
rest..........

Does someone know how the parallel threading works?

regards Hans-Peter Received on Wed Oct 08 2008 - 02:12:10 CDT

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