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CPU jumping to 100% usage

I have Oracle 8i. Out of the blue, the CPU jumps to 100% of its processing power. How can I check which session or user is putting this load on it?

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Use your operating system's utility (top on Unix, Task Manager on Windows) to observe CPU used by each process.

This was first published in June 2006

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