Where in the Oracle directory tree structure are audit traces placed?
The following outlines how to find the Thread ID of an Oracle process taking up large amounts of processor time. 1) Go into Performance Monitor in Administrative tools. 2) Click on the ‘+’ icon In the window that pops up: In Object – select Thread In Counter – select %ProcessorTime In Instance – select all the Oracle sessions Click ADD 3) Use ‘Ctrl H’. This will highlight the first thread In the bottom window select each thread one at a time until the thread using all the processor time is highlighted. Note down the instance number of the thread. 4) Click on the ‘+’ button again In the window that pops up: In Object – select Thread In Counter – select ID Thread In Instance – select the oracle instance number above Click ADD 5) In the bottom window, highlight the thread ID added in step 4 and note the number that appears in the Last/Average/Min and Max boxes. This number will be the same in all 4 boxes and is the process ID. Then run the attached script in SQL and enter the process ID w