Re: SMON system hang

From: Noname <nospam_at_nospam.no>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:20:19 -0500
Message-ID: <9v82to$2pc4$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>

A couple of questions:

What exact version of Oracle are you using?
What platform are you running the db on?
Have you power cycled the machine?
What other processes are running with Oracle?

When you have the answers to these questions, you can probably check metalink and find out for yourself without waiting for the group to reply. Chances are, you have a flawed version of Oracle or you need to patch your OS.

Good Luck!
Chris

"Osbit" <kpage_at_osbit.com> wrote in message news:1008157940.6908.0.nnrp-02.3e31dc83_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> I'm having a problem with the SMON process on my Oracle instance. It has
> suddenly become the busiest process on the system, consuming about 50% CPU
> on a system that is doing nothing else at all. Disk activity is at almost
> zero, only writing about 2.4Kb / sec to three data areas.
> If I try and shutdown the database it just hangs there, so I tried a
> shutdown abort and then a restart with the same result, a hang.
> I can't figure out what the SMON process is doing as I've not worked with
> Oracle for that long.
>
> Can anyone help out the new guy ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Received on Wed Dec 12 2001 - 11:20:19 CST