I'm sorry for lack of detail of the system, I'm an Oracle DBA and don't have complete knowledge of the OS. Here's a general description of what I am seeing:
Our system has progressively gotten slower, it's been up for 65 days. Since the first part of Feb the load average has crept up from about 3.5 to around 12 now. When I'm looking within the database there isn't anything out of sorts. No run away processes or unusual activity. The CPU usage seems to have gradually grown over this time as well. We are using virtual servers and the CPU usage used to stay around 70% of assigned capacity, now it's over 110% consistently. When looking at the various user processes, none of them stand out as a CPU hog, their just all collectively using more CPU it looks like. Any thoughts?
Our system has progressively gotten slower, it's been up for 65 days. Since the first part of Feb the load average has crept up from about 3.5 to around 12 now. When I'm looking within the database there isn't anything out of sorts. No run away processes or unusual activity. The CPU usage seems to have gradually grown over this time as well. We are using virtual servers and the CPU usage used to stay around 70% of assigned capacity, now it's over 110% consistently. When looking at the various user processes, none of them stand out as a CPU hog, their just all collectively using more CPU it looks like. Any thoughts?