Welcome to Spotlight
Install Spotlight
Start Spotlight
Spotlight on Oracle
Connect to an Oracle Database
Oracle User Wizard
Spotlight on Oracle Data Guard
DBA Connection Credentials
User Account
New Oracle User
Select Tablespace
Predictive Diagnostics
Ready To Configure Oracle User
End
Configuring Oracle User for Spotlight Dialog
Toad DBA Suite for Oracle
Oracle Architecture Overview
Spotlight on Oracle Home Page
Spotlight on Oracle Alarms
Spotlight on Oracle Drilldowns
Install And Configure DTrace Scripts
Tune Your Oracle Database
Predictive Diagnostics
Spotlight on Oracle Tools: Explain Plan, SQL Optimizer, Space Manager
Standby Connections Dialog
Spotlight on Oracle Data Guard Home Page
Spotlight on Oracle Data Guard Alarms
Spotlight on Oracle RAC
Connect to Spotlight on Oracle RAC
Spotlight on Unix
Oracle RAC Connection Details
Verify Cluster Connection Details Dialog
Connect to an Exadata Storage Server (Cells)
Spotlight on Oracle RAC Home Page
Spotlight on Oracle RAC Alarms
Spotlight on Oracle RAC Drilldowns
Configure the Unix System
Connect to Unix Systems
Spotlight on Unix Home Page
Spotlight on Unix Alarms
Spotlight on Unix Drilldowns
Spotlight on Windows
Connect to Windows Systems
Spotlight on Windows Home Page
Spotlight on Windows Alarms
Spotlight on Windows Drilldowns
Troubleshooting: Connection Problems
Processes Page
The Processes page lists the processes currently running on the Unix system.
Note: The Processes page shows the output from the Unix ps command.
To open the Processes page
- Select the Spotlight on Unix connection in the Spotlight Browser.
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Click Processes | Processes.
For each process, you can view the information that follows:
Notes:
- Some columns in the table are hidden by default. To view hidden columns, right-click a column heading and choose Organize Columns... from the shortcut menu.
- Refer to man ps(1) for further details on the values shown in the Processes grid.
- When the table is displayed as a flat grid (not a tree), right click any value in the table and select Show processes where... or Hide processes where... to filter the table by that value.
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| Process |
The name of the process. Notes:
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| Nice | The Nice value describes the relative priority of the specified process. A process with a low Nice value is running at a higher priority than a process with a high Nice value. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PID | The process identifier for the specified process. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PPID | The process identifier for the process that is the parent of the specified process. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| % CPU | The percentage of CPU time used by the process in the last sample interval. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| State |
The state of the process. Process states are platform dependent.
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| Terminal | The Unix terminal session where a user started the specified process. If the process was not started by an interactive user, the Terminal value is set to "?". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| User | The name of the user to whom the process belongs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time | The amount of CPU time the process has consumed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virt Mem (MB) | The amount of virtual memory in use by the process, measured in megabytes. |
