I was wondering where a list of kill signals (kill -1,
kill -9 etc) can be found.
I've always used kill -9 but I'd rather try something
less drastic first, even though I've never run into
problems using kill -9 pid before. man pages don't
seem to list the signals (Solaris 7).
thanks
mkb
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- Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> Because 'kill' and 'kill -15' don't seem to work
> consistently.
>
> kill -9 says 'kill with extreme prejudice, take no
> prisoners!', whereas
> your garden variety kill allows a process to call
> for a priest, eat a last
> meal and smoke a cigarette, all of which take too
> much time.
>
> Jared
>
>
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>
>
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> Jared, I always kill the Oracle session first. So
> could you elaborate why
> you use 'kill -9'.
>
> TIA
> Prakash
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> It could be that pmon is rolling back the
> transaction.
>
> It could also be that pmon is never going to clean
> it up, which sometimes
> happens when killing an active transaction.
>
> I am a strong advocate of using 'orakill' on
> NT/Win2k and 'kill -9' on
> Unix to kill the process, rather than killing the
> session in Oracle.
>
> If your session has still not been cleaned up,
> you'll understand my
> position, as you will now have to bounce your
> database.
>
> Check to see if the session is holding a lock, if
> so, and an unreasonable
> amount of time has passed for pmon to do its
> cleanup, then you likely
> need to bounce the database.
>
> Jared
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> Hi.
>
> Here is my situation. I have killed an ORacle
> transaction. Oracle came back with "session marked
> for
> kill" and the status of the session is now "Killed".
> I presume that the reason is that Oracle needs to
> roll
> back the changes made. Can I confirm whether this is
> indeed the case via some system tables?
>
> thakns
>
> gene
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