oracle top的使用,top的用法

top

The top command is probably the most useful one for an Oracle DBA managing a database on Linux. Say the system is slow and you want to find out who is gobbling up all the CPU and/or memory. To display the top processes, you use the command top.

Note that unlike other commands, top does not produce an output and sits still. It refreshes the screen to display new information. So, if you just issue top and leave the screen up, the most current information is always up. To stop and exit to shell, you can press Control-C.$ top

18:46:13 up 11 days, 21:50, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.18

151 processes: 147 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped

CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle

total 12.5% 0.0% 6.7% 0.0% 0.0% 5.3% 75.2%

Mem: 1026912k av, 999548k used, 27364k free, 0k shrd, 116104k buff

758312k actv, 145904k in_d, 16192k in_c

Swap: 2041192k av, 122224k used, 1918968k free 590140k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND

451 oracle 15 0 6044 4928 4216 S 0.1 0.4 0:20 0 tnslsnr

8991 oracle 15 0 1248 1248 896 R 0.1 0.1 0:00 0 top

1 root 19 0 440 400 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init

2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd

3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd

4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0

7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 bdflush

5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:33 0 kswapd

6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:14 0 kscand

8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kupdated

9 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mdrecoveryd

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Let's examine the different types of information produced. The first line:18:46:13 up 11 days, 21:50, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.18

shows the current time (18:46:13), that system has been up for 11 days; that the system has been working for 21 hours 50 seconds. The load average of the system is shown (0.11, 0.19, 0.18) for the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes respectively. (By the way, you can also get this information by issuing the uptime command.)

If the load average is not required, press the letter "l" (lowercase L); it will turn it off. To turn it back on press l again. The second line:151 processes: 147 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped

shows the number of processes, running, sleeping, etc. The third and fourth lines:CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle

total 12.5% 0.0% 6.7% 0.0% 0.0% 5.3% 75.2%

show the CPU utilization details. The above line shows that user processes consume 12.5% and system consumes 6.7%. The user processes include the Oracle processes. Press "t" to turn these three lines off and on. If there are more than one CPU, you will see one line per CPU.

The next two lines:Mem: 1026912k av, 1000688k used, 26224k free, 0k shrd, 113624k buff

758668k actv, 146872k in_d, 14460k in_c

Swap: 2041192k av, 122476k used, 1918716k free 591776k cached

show the memory available and utilized. Total memory is "1026912k av", approximately 1GB, of which only 26224k or 26MB is free. The swap space is 2GB; but it's almost not used. To turn it off and on, press "m".

The rest of the display shows the processes in a tabular format. Here is the explanation of the columns:

ColumnDescription

PIDThe process ID of the process

USERThe user running the process

PRIThe priority of the process

NIThe nice value: The higher the value, the lower the priority of the task

SIZEMemory used by this process (code+data+stack)

RSSThe physical memory used by this process

SHAREThe shared memory used by this process

STATThe status of this process, shown in code. Some major status codes are:

R – Running

S –Sleeping

Z – Zombie

T – StoppedYou can also see second and third characters, which indicate:

W – Swapped out process

N – positive nice value

%CPUThe percentage of CPU used by this process

%MEMThe percentage of memory used by this process

TIMEThe total CPU time used by this process

CPUIf this is a multi-processor system, this column indicates the ID of the CPU this process is running on.

COMMANDThe command issued by this process

While the top is being displayed, you can press a few keys to format the display as you like. Pressing the uppercase M key sorts the output by memory usage. (Note that using lowercase m will turn the memory summary lines on or off at the top of the display.) This is very useful when you want to find out who is consuming the memory. Here is sample output:PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND

31903 oracle 15 0 75760 72M 72508 S 0.0 7.2 0:01 0 ora_smon_PRODB2

31909 oracle 15 0 68944 66M 64572 S 0.0 6.6 0:03 0 ora_mmon_PRODB2

31897 oracle 15 0 53788 49M 48652 S 0.0 4.9 0:00 0 ora_dbw0_PRODB2

Now that you learned how to interpret the output, let's see how to use command line parameters.

The most useful is -d, which indicates the delay between the screen refreshes. To refresh every second, use top -d 1.

The other useful option is -p. If you want to monitor only a few processes, not all, you can specify only those after the -p option. To monitor processes 13609, 13608 and 13554, issue:top -p 13609 -p 13608 -p 13554

This will show results in the same format as the top command, but only those specific processes.

Tip for Oracle Users

It's probably needless to say that the top utility comes in very handy for analyzing the performance of database servers. Here is a partial top output.20:51:14 up 11 days, 23:55, 4 users, load average: 0.88, 0.39, 0.27

113 processes: 110 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped

CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle

total 1.0% 0.0% 5.6% 2.2% 0.0% 91.2% 0.0%

Mem: 1026912k av, 1008832k used, 18080k free, 0k shrd, 30064k buff

771512k actv, 141348k in_d, 13308k in_c

Swap: 2041192k av, 66776k used, 1974416k free 812652k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND

16143 oracle 15 0 39280 32M 26608 D 4.0 3.2 0:02 0 oraclePRODB2...

5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 1.6 0.0 0:33 0 kswapd

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Let's analyze the output carefully. The first thing you should notice is the "idle" column under CPU states; it's 0.0%—meaning, the CPU is completely occupied doing something. The question is, doing what? Move your attention to the column "system", just slightly left; it shows 5.6%. So the system itself is not doing much. Go even more left to the column marked "user", which shows 1.0%. Since user processes include Oracle as well, Oracle is not consuming the CPU cycles. So, what's eating up all the CPU?

The answer lies in the same line, just to the right under the column "iowait", which indicates 91.2%. This explains it all: the CPU is waiting for IO 91.2% of the time.

So why so much IO wait? The answer lies in the display. Note the PID of the highest consuming process: 16143. You can use the following query to determine what the process is doing:select s.sid, s.username, s.program

from v$session s, v$process p

where spid = 16143

and p.addr = s.paddr

/

SID USERNAME PROGRAM

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159 SYS rman@prolin2 (TNS V1-V3)

The rman process is taking up the IO waits related CPU cycles. This information helps you determine the next course of action.