Sounds a similar config to what I have. 1. Have you run vmstat and iostat during that period? Be interesting to see what it shows (vmstat 5, iostat 5 and iostat -x 5 or 10 second intervals). 2. Have you looked at sar output? Should be a bunch of sar files in /var/log/sa. 3. Check http://www.puschitz.com/TuningLinuxForOracle.shtml for more information. 4. Personally, I also dump all active SQL statements to see which is taking the most time and investigate further. Here is my version of the script: dump_sql.sql set serveroutput on size 1000000 declare num_rows integer := 0; begin for recSQL_HASH in (select username, last_call_et, to_char(logon_time, 'YYYYMMDD hh24miss') logon_time, sid, serial#, sql_hash_value from v$session where username is not null and status = 'ACTIVE' and sql_hash_value > 0 order by last_call_et) loop dbms_output.put_line('________________________________________________'); dbms_output.put_line('username last_call_et logon_time sid serial# hash'); dbms_output.put_line(recSQL_HASH.username||' '|| recSQL_HASH.last_call_et||' '|| recSQL_HASH.logon_time||' '|| recSQL_HASH.sid||' '|| recSQL_HASH.serial#||' '|| recSQL_HASH.sql_hash_value); dbms_output.put_line('________________________________________________'); for recSQL_TEXT in (select sql_text from v$sqltext where hash_value = recSQL_HASH.sql_hash_value order by piece) loop dbms_output.put_line(recSQL_TEXT.sql_text); end loop; num_rows := num_rows + 1; end loop; dbms_output.put_line('________________________________________________'); dbms_output.put_line('Number of Active Sessions = '||num_rows); dbms_output.put_line('________________________________________________'); exception when others then dbms_output.put_line('SQL ERROR '||sqlcode||' '||sqlerrm); end; / -- mohammed --- Magnus Andersen <Magnus.Andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Magnus Andersen wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am in need of a consultant that is heavy on > RedHat Linux real world > > experience for an emergency situation. > > > > Here is the situation: I have recently gone live > with our production > > database on RedHat Linux 3 AS and I am having a > few issues. My biggest > > problem right now is that I am seeing spikes in my > load average, > > resulting in my system slowing down, throughout > the day as soon as I > > have 6 - 7 or more two tier connections to the > database. > > > > Hardware: HP DL 580, 4 3 GHZ CPUs with 512k L1 > Cache and 4 MB L2 Cache, > > HDDs is in RAID 10 config, all Ultra 320 36 GB > 15000RPM. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Magnus Andersen > > Systems Administrator / Oracle DBA > > Walker & Associates, Inc. > > > > -- > Legal Disclaimer: The statements expressed here are > of my own and do not > represent those of Yahoo Inc ! > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l