Each session below Unix, each background process is a process of the operating system, and Windows can only see an Oracle.exe process under Windows, all session processes in Oracle, the background process is The package is thread in this process, which gives us the difficulty of managing the Oracle database on the Windows platform.
Below is a few free software used to observe threads on a Windows platform. Thanks for the introduction of yong Huang.
Discussion topics about such tools, in the following link below:
http://www.itpub.net/246048.html
1. QSLICE: GUI
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/qslice-o.asp
2. PSTAT: Command line
Http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/pstat-o.aSP
3. PSList: command line
Http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml
4. Process Explorer: GUI
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
5. Strace: command line
http://www.bindview.com/support/razor/utilities/windows/strace_readme.cfm
