Spotlight on Oracle 10.7 - Release Notes

Blocked Process Alarm

The Blocked Processes button in the CPU panel shows the number of processes waiting on information to become available in memory.

Processes can also become blocked when they are waiting for:

• disk I/O completion,
• network I/O completion, or
• a shared resource.

A high level of blocked processes may indicate an under-configured machine.

The type of alarm that is activated is determined by the number of blocked processes waiting on information.

Related Topics

CPU Panel