Excessive Deletes From SMON_SCN_TIME

Excessive Deletes From SMON_SCN_TIME Error

I got a support call late last Friday afternoon (why do most call seem to come on a Friday afternoon just before you finish for the weekend?) about bad performance on one of our applications we host for a customer.

When I logged into the server and took a look at what it was doing, the CPU was getting hammered by the Oracle SMON process.