Hi, (It seems that my outlook is incompatible with oracle-l, so if it mess = code, please forward it to the list). Try truss -p $pid , and find out what the process is doing in the unix = level and using event 10046 to trace it in oracle. I have seen similar things on my solaris box. Maybe it is doing poll() = system call, or yield() system call.(I hit such problem). Workaround is = to use another execution path for this specific SQL. V$sesstat won't update the statistics until the current SQL has = finished. =20 Regards Zhu Chao eBay e-commerce Technology Operations (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd. Tel: 86-21-32174588x8667 Fax: 86-21-63404100=20 12/F., Raffles City Shanghai, No. 268 Xi Zang Road, Central=20 Shanghai, China, 200001=20 =20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ganesh Raja Sent: 2004=C4=EA9=D4=C224=C8=D5 18:29 To: Oracle-L Subject: Re: What is this Session Doing Sorry here are the versions. Solaris 64 Bit 9.2.0.5 Thanks. On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:28:12 +0100, Ganesh Raja <ganesh.raja@xxxxxxxxx> = wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I have a query that has spawned parallel slaves. All the slaves are > now waiting for a single slave to respond back. This slave process is > churning away and eating up lot of CPU. [According to prstat] >=20 > When I see in v$sess_io i don't see any activity of this Process and > since it is on the CPU it is not waiting .. So what is happening here. >=20 > The weird thing is that that the CPU statistics for this process are > not being updated on v$sessstat >=20 > Any help is greatly appreciated. >=20 > Cheers > Ganesh R > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l