Hi, I have seen the exact same symptoms when an older client (Forms 6i) was trying to connect with SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES set to (NTS). Every attempted connection blocked a CPU core. The problem went away when using (NONE). (We never did proper troubleshooting to find the underlying cause, just compared with a working client.) Best regards Ingrid Voigt On 25.09.2013 20:07, David Ramírez Reyes wrote: > Hi All, > I have an Oracle 11g R2 over a windows server 2008 (am the first of hating > Windows, but that's what I have...); it has 10 GB of SGA, 500 process limit > -400 processes avg-, db on archive mode. > > The server has 16 GB of physical memory and 8 cpu cores. > > Now the problem is this: > > On the last days, the cpu usage has been growing up about every 12-16 > hours, it starts at 8-10 avg, then goes to 28-35, then 65-75, 90-95 and > then 100 pick, once it goes to 100% the db hungs (and the server itself > hungs) and there's no other solution than restart the instance. > > All this cpu is used by oracle.exe so, I dowloaded a tool to monitor the > specific processes cpu usage at OS Level (MS Process Explorer) and I notice > that the heavy load of cpu usage is on 6 processes which are the following: > > SYSTEM 190 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD) > SYSTEM 25 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD) > SYSTEM 5 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD) > SYSTEM 211 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD) > SYSTEM 167 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD) > SYSTEM 2 ORACLE.EXE (SHAD) > > This is something strange because I have 3 similar instances on another > server with exactly the same characteristics and I have no problem, even > cpu usage goes between 10-20%. > > Does anybody has an idea of how to know which Oracle processes are related > to these (SHAD) processes?, I even stop the EMC for some time without any > difference. > > Thanks in advance. > > > David Ramírez Reyes > DBA > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l . -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l