Re: PMON

From: Uwe Weber <uwe.weber_at_teleos-web.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:38:34 +0200
Message-ID: <587g0jF2c8503U1@mid.individual.net>

Hi Joel,

thnks for your reply.

joel garry wrote:

>> Today I asked an Oracle Corp onsite consultant why PMON
>> did not get rid of the old server processes. He told me that
>> he did not know the algorithm that determines PMON's behaviour,
>> but that it could take up to nine hours before it kills
>> orphaned servers. But there should be an event, whose event
>> number he does not remember, that starts the cleanup
>> immediately.
>
> I'm wondering if he is confusing it with an event that does that for
> SMON.
>

Maybe. Did not meet him today, so I could not ask for clarification.

>
> See metalink Note:1020720.102
>
> http://www.dizwell.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=nondbakill is pretty
> bizarre.
>
> Personally, I've always just very carefully killed the processes from
> unix manually.

I guess will have to script something that does the killing, but it looks like that killing the processes with an OS signal is the best solution.

Regards,
uwe Received on Thu Apr 12 2007 - 14:38:34 CDT