RE: SNP0...SNPx Memory Hogs

From: Jack C. Applewhite <japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:01:14 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0041BE1C.20020228140114@fatcity.com>

Ruth,

I'm sure they're Oracle Job Queue processes because the lines below show up in my Alert.Log when I stop and start them by issuing the commands in the first two lines. That's when up to 500MB of memory is freed by the Oracle Process.

BTW, SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol (I'm pretty sure, at least). It's a TCP-related thingey - a technical term ;-). That's totally different (again, I'm pretty sure) from the Oracle SNP Job Queue processes.

>From Alert.Log:

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...
ALTER SYSTEM SET job_queue_processes=0;
ALTER SYSTEM SET job_queue_processes=4;
Thu Feb 28 07:01:19 2002
Restarting dead background process SNP0
SNP0 started with pid=8
Thu Feb 28 07:01:19 2002
Restarting dead background process SNP1
SNP1 started with pid=9
Thu Feb 28 07:01:19 2002
Restarting dead background process SNP2
SNP2 started with pid=10
Thu Feb 28 07:01:20 2002
Restarting dead background process SNP3
SNP3 started with pid=11
...

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Jack

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Jack C. Applewhite
Database Administrator/Developer
OCP Oracle8 DBA
iNetProfit, Inc.
Austin, Texas
www.iNetProfit.com
japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com
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-----Original Message-----
Gramolini
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

At least in 8.0.x the oracle intelligent agent process are dbsnmp processes. Are you sure that these are oracle processes and not OS related.

Ruth
----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:20 PM

> 8.1.7.2.5 under Win2k Server
>
> I just discovered that my four SNP processes were sitting around, doing no
> work, taking up about 500MB of RAM. Is this normal?
>...

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