Re: killing bkground processes

If the process is not dbsnmp, just snp, than it is a OS process and not an oracle process. If it is a dbsnmp process than you can kill it on the OS with kill -15 or in the database as you tried.

HTH,
Ruth
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> can anybody tell me
> how to kill the background processes (SNP) that are currently
> running/sleep mode.
>
> alter system kill session is not working.
>
> saying user session id does not exist.
>
> srinvas
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