RE: How to determine what session is using lot of Oracle

We have the same problem in our Solaris and HP-UX environments. Here are a couple of simple tricks I use:

• When I have a runaway process that has a lot of UNIX execution time (ps -ef), I check the start time of the UNIX process and the LOGON_TIME column of V$SESSION. The 2 times usually match.
• Not knowing who the culprit usually disturbs me. Sometimes I can Select the OSUSER column from V$SESSION to find out which person has which login session.

I hope this helps.

Michael Armstead
Database Administrator, OCP-Certified
Corporate & Finance Information Systems
Glaxo Wellcome

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> Hi all,
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> There is an application where everyone uses the same login. One of the
> processes is using a lot
> of resources. How can I determine what session it is so I can use alter
> system kill session.
> NT 4 Oracle 8.0.5
>
> Thanks
> Rick Cale, Science Applications International Corp.
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