Purpose of process oracle_20503_v1 ?
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
OpenSUSE (64-bit) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
I'm seeing the following process, with which I am unfamiliar, and I would like to understand it's purpose because it's hitting CPU pretty hard:
oracle_20503_v1
e.g.
top - 10:24:33 up 36 days, 9:25, 1 user, load average: 2.85, 2.34, 2.11
Tasks: 377 total, 4 running, 373 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 71.4 us, 19.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 9.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 7984260 total, 7841676 used, 142584 free, 0 buffers
KiB Swap: 8393724 total, 477184 used, 7916540 free. 5004604 cached Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20503 oracle 20 0 3598572 134224 119112 R 55.00 1.681 0:01.43 oracle_20503_v1
21457 tomcat 20 0 3678268 1.075g 16116 S 30.00 14.12 2857:05 java