Re: Kernel eating 50-80% of CPU (oracle server)

From: Charles Hansis <chansis_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:16:41 -0400
Message-ID: <7srp4l$2qq$1@oak.prod.itd.earthlink.net>

When you ran the top command, which area was taking up most of the processor time: user, system, nice .... I know that if the system goes up substantially and the %free goes down, that can point at some disk binding. Also, can you target the exact processes that are dragging your system down?

Jim H.

NetComrade <netcomradeNOSPAM_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:37f0e8df.738157_at_news.earthlink.net...
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a problem which appeared today, all of a sudden the load on the
> machine went up, and the TOP command showed something like 50-80% of
> CPU usage. Any suggestions on how this might happen?
> e4500/6GIG Ram/little iowait
>
> Also, I thought this might be coming from Oracle creating 4 dedicated
> servers a sec, so I got it down to a lower amount, but still getting a
> high load.
>
> THanx.
>
Received on Tue Sep 28 1999 - 20:16:41 CDT