Re: More baby steps into Ora on unix - what is this?

On 19 Mar 2003 17:05:30 GMT, Lear <grmdy_at_yaahhoooo.coooo.uk> wrote:

>They're the processes associated with the Oracle connections from "remote"
>clients. If you've shut the databases down cleanly, then they should have
>been cleaned up. The fact that they aren't may be down to the way the
>system was shutdown, or "bad" client disconnections. Or, it may be a bug.
>Patching to 8.1.7.4 _might_ fix it.
>
>If the database is definitely shutting down cleanly, then there should be
>no harm in killing these processes off.
>
> ps -ef | grep "oracleCMDM1240" | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9
>
>should do it quickly and easily. But make sure the awk part outputs the
>correct process ID's first: you don't want to kill the wrong process.
>
>Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in
>news:la2h7v4b4v4pfk3vajvri6tfj3v8ajrkd2_at_4ax.com:
>
>> Platform; Oracle 8.1.7.0 EE on Solaris
>>
>> After shutting down the db's and stopping the listener,
>>
>> ps -ef|grep "ora" | grep -v grep
>>
>> yeilds several pages of the following:
>>
>> oracle 10676 1 0 07:42:12 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>> oracle 10721 1 0 07:42:13 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>> oracle 10727 1 0 07:42:14 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>> oracle 10670 1 0 07:42:12 ? 0:00 oracleCMDM1240 (LOCAL=NO)
>>
>> the CMDM1240 is the name of one of two SIDs on this box. It is the
>> only one referenced in the several pages of output.

Ah, yes. Taking your comments, I tried stopping an application server process, and these all went away. Suspicion confirmed. Thanks. Received on Wed Mar 19 2003 - 12:29:25 CST