Re: 10g on Fedora Core 2 - all Oracle backgr. proc. show as: .../oracle.bin

sbrk_at_shaw.ca (Vic B.) wrote in message news:<a8660c69.0411212207.72833b41_at_posting.google.com>...
> Problem's been solved! :))
>
> $ ps -ef
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> oracle 2540 1 0 19:01 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_test
> oracle 2542 1 0 19:01 ? 00:00:00 ora_mman_test
...
>
> I ended up upgrading kernel to the latest one: 2.6.9-1.3_FC2, renaming
> 'oracle.bin' back to 'oracle' and adding vm/hugetlb_shm_group='xxx' to
> /etc/sysctl.

Good to know you solved the problem. I want to say that even if you had not upgraded the kernel, your instance might be running fine. Process names can be changed on UNIX/Linux to differ from the executable image name. Oracle does that for users' convenience and nothing else. So in your case where you only see oracle.bin processes, you could just get into Oracle and look at v$bgprocess combined with v$process to identify the background processes.

I wish you had run your hacked oracle.bin instance longer to see if there're really problems or not.

Yong Huang Received on Mon Nov 22 2004 - 10:34:42 CST