Hi I must assume you are using some OS from Microsoft, but again I could be wrong. If you need t interment the content of the process column from v$session on a MS os the first part before the ':' is the pid this can be found in taskmanager or one of the nice tools from www.sysinternal.com that produces the best tool for debugging and thereby understanding the MS os .-) /peter QuijadaReina, Julio C wrote: >All, > > >For a good chunk of the day now, I've been trying to get all information >I can about this one session that is consuming up to 70 per cent of CPU >on our db server. > >Let me give you a little background: We have an application server that >runs a web-based system for class registration. This app server runs >Apache. The task mingler on this app server shows several Apache PIDs >-each db instance has its own separate web service and in turn, each >Apache PID can have several child processes. > >Now, in my efforts to track down this CPU-hogging session; on our db >server I see this session as coming from the app server [get this from >v$session.machine.] I can also get some other goodies by joining on >v$process to get the db server PID. I've done pretty good up to this >point, but there is one field on v$session called 'process' of which I >am uncertain. This field shows two numbers separated by a colon (e.g. >2800:2168). A little bit of research indicates that the first number >corresponds to the app server Apache's PID. I have used netstat on my >app server to see if the second number would be a port number. But, >netstat does not show any clients connecting to that port number. Has >anyone figured out what that second number stands for? Is it a client's >identification number of some sort or is it just a random number >generated by Oracle upon establishing a connection? I'll appreciate any >input you may have on this. Thanks in advance! > >Julio > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >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 >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Peter Gram comp : Miracle A/S Addr : Kratvej 2, 2760 Maaloev Phone : +45 2527 7107, Fax : +45 4466 8856, Home +45 3874 5696 mail : peter.gram@xxxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.miracleas.dk Upcoming events: DBF2004 28-30 oktober 2004 Visit http://www.miracleas.dk fore news ! ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------