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Old 07-21-2004
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I'm a DBA so no abuse please! I've for 5 Oracle Forms processes that are spinning and am trying to find out if they're doing anything:
Running HPUX 11.11
Code:
CPU TTY  PID USERNAME PRI NI   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME %WCPU  %CPU COMMAND
 9   ?  2735 oracle   241 20 24228K 16668K run   2607:29 84.92 84.78 f60webm
 4   ? 15925 oracle   241 20 24228K 16636K run   2664:49 84.43 84.28 f60webm
11   ? 16088 oracle   241 20 26676K 19116K run   2602:14 82.92 82.77 f60webm
 8   ?   726 oracle   241 20 24228K 16636K run   2432:42 79.87 79.73 f60webm
10   ? 17403 oracle   241 20 26676K 20016K run   2616:34 71.73 71.61 f60webm

I've run tusc -p against them and get the following from all the processes:

Code:
$ tusc -p 15925
( Attached to process 15925 ("f60webm webfile=5,2408,PID387") [32-bit] )
[15925] In user-mode ................................................................................... [running]

When I run tusc against some other Oracle forms processes I can see they are sleeping, then waking up and doing something:
Code:
[27795] read(4, 0x4009ef98, 6000) ................................................................. [sleeping]
[27795] read(4, "c4e89da1h 1f~ 11", 6000) ......................................................... = 8
[27795] setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0x680f4374, NULL) .................................................. = 0
[27795] setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0x680f4188, NULL) .................................................. = 0
[27795] write(4, "K 05", 2) ....................................................................... = 2
[27795] setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0x680f4188, NULL) .................................................. = 0
[27795] setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0x680f4374, NULL) .................................................. = 0
[27795] read(4, 0x4009ef98, 6000) ................................................................. [sleeping]

I guess my question is - can I kill the 5 spinning processes as they dont look like they're doing anything.

Thanks,
Fraze
# 2  
Old 07-21-2004
Something is really wrong with those Forms processes.
Running in user mode means they are using cpu to execute user mode code - not making any system calls. They're stuck in a loop.
# 3  
Old 07-21-2004
Thanks Jim - think its time for a kill!
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