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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> OT : kernel using 75% of CPU
Hi there,
I have a Sun e4500, running Solaris 2.7 and
Oracle 8.1.7.1.0. Everything looks normal from a database perspective, but
when I run "top" it show the kernel being very hog-like:
load averages: 14.38, 15.18,
15.1807:16:21126 processes: 118 sleeping, 4 running, 4 on cpuCPU states: 0.6% idle, 26.6% user, 72.8% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swapMemory: 4096M real, 63M free, 216M swap in use, 5310M swap free
SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 2286 oracle 1 0 0 1844M 1814M run 9:44 13.90% oracle11068 oracle 1 0
oracle 1 0 0 1150M 1124M cpu1 0:01 1.39% oracle 5944 oracle 1 40 0 1820M 1789M sleep 14:40 1.36% oracle 4797 root 1 50 0 2112K
oracle 1 0 0 110M 92M cpu0 0:01 1.26% oracle11114 oracle 1 0 0 1009M 984M cpu1 0:00 0.66% oracle11157 oracle 1 0 0 1009M
oracle 1 33 0 1794M 1765M sleep 0:00 0.29% oracle19558 oracle 1 60 0 1797M 1751M
oracle11366 oracle 1 55 0 1793M 1763M sleep 0:00 0.19% oracle11292 oracle 1 26 2 2008K 1424K
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