Re: Monitoring process usage

  • From: Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kaygopal <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 02:40:58 +0800

Yeah, as K Gopal said, you should check v$resource_limit for real numbers...

A related example is that V$SESSION may lie about the real number of session
state objects in use, but v$resource_limit shows you the correct numbers...
I recently wrote about it:

http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle/oracle-internals-and-architecture/recursive-sessions-and-ora-00018-maximum-number-of-sessions-exceeded

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Tanel Poder
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http://blog.tanelpoder.com


On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:05 AM, K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> V$resource_limit is your friend here..
>
> -Gopal
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Janine Sisk <janine@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is a real DBA 101 question...  I have a 9.2 installation that has
> been running without issue for years, and suddenly it has started running
> out of processes every few months.  The first couple of times I misdiagnosed
> the problem, thinking it meant UNIX processes.  This time I dug deeper and
> realized it was actually hitting the PROCESSES limit within Oracle.
>

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