Mark, Original post had information that in this case there 200 simultaneous sessions. So this is not stange that each of Oracle thread have max 1/50 of CPU resource (OS overhead not counted). I don't any thing strange in this behavior. It is as it intended to work, or I missed some thing? Jurijs +371 9268222 (+2 GMT) ============================================ Thank you for teaching me. http://otn.oracle.com/ocm/jvelikanovs.html On 03.08.2004 18:04:28 oracle-l-bounce wrote: >Forgive my confusion. If the full CPU utilization is showing in task >manager, can you not just pull up the tab showing processes, click on the >cpu column, and get a list of processes ordered by CPU consumption rate? My >guess is that should show you what is consuming the time. From this same tab >you should be able to find the Oracle processes and verify how much CPU they >get per unit of real time. Not that this solves your problem, but I think it >would let you know what is burning the CPU and confirm that Oracle is >getting only dribs and drabs of time. Then again, my level of confusion on >what is growing wrong on products from the referenced company is very high >and nearly continuous. > >--->>> probably trojan_remail_everyone.new_undetected_worm_of_the_day (I >hope not.) > >mwf > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------