killed processes don't go away immediately, there is cleanup involved.
in fact -- does your batch job do updates/inserts without commits? if so,
those processes will stay around until the roll back has finished. And
bouncing the database won't eliminate the roll back
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Help, processes won't die
>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:01:38 -0800
>
>I need some assistance ASAP. Our nightly batch process seems to have hung
>up for some strange reason (ok no biggie my boss says kill it and start it
>again). The problem is I have killed the processes both in oracle (sid,
>serial#) and also in unix. Now I can't see the processes in unix but in
>oracle they have a status of killed but are still holding the resources. My
>thinking is telling me the pmon is not waking up or not doing it's job. How
>can one manually tell a process to wake up. Any help will be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>OS Solaris 7
>Oracle 8.0.6.3
>
>Thanks. Ivan
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