Look at v$session_wait... see what is the session waiting for !!! -----Original Message----- From: askdba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:askdba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Subodh Deshpande Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:06 PM To: askdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [askdba] Re: What is the Process Doing hi ganesh, just a thought, what it is showing in v$session for that sid which you have seen in v$sess_io..are they of same user..inactive.. if in v$session, its inactive or dead you can kill that sid and serial#.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ganesh Raja <ganesh.raja@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:29:28 +0100 To: askdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [askdba] Re: What is the Process Doing > Sorry here are the versions. >=20 > Solaris 64 Bit 9.2.0.5 >=20 > Thanks. >=20 >=20 > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:27:32 +0100, Ganesh Raja <ganesh.raja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > I have a query that has spawned parallel slaves. All the slaves are > > now waiting for a single slave to respond back. This slave process is > > churning away and eating up lot of CPU. [According to prstat] > >=20 > > When I see in v$sess_io i don't see any activity of this Process and > > since it is on the CPU it is not waiting .. So what is happening here. > >=20 > > The weird thing is that that the CPU statistics for this process are > > not being updated on v$sessstat > >=20 > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > >=20 > > Cheers > > Ganesh R > > >=20 Good Luck..Subodh Deshpande =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Experience Is Knowledge Wisdom Is Philosophy =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --=20 _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default .asp?SRC=3Dlycos10