Ruth, I'm sure they're Oracle Job Queue processes because the lines below show up in my Alert.Log when I stop and start them by issuing the commands in the first two lines. That's when up to 500MB of memory is freed by the Oracle Process.
BTW, SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol (I'm pretty sure, at least). It's a TCP-related thingey - a technical term ;-). That's totally different (again, I'm pretty sure) from the Oracle SNP Job Queue processes. >From Alert.Log: -------------------------------------- ... ALTER SYSTEM SET job_queue_processes=0; ALTER SYSTEM SET job_queue_processes=4; Thu Feb 28 07:01:19 2002 Restarting dead background process SNP0 SNP0 started with pid=8 Thu Feb 28 07:01:19 2002 Restarting dead background process SNP1 SNP1 started with pid=9 Thu Feb 28 07:01:19 2002 Restarting dead background process SNP2 SNP2 started with pid=10 Thu Feb 28 07:01:20 2002 Restarting dead background process SNP3 SNP3 started with pid=11 ... --------------------------------------- Jack -------------------------------- Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator/Developer OCP Oracle8 DBA iNetProfit, Inc. Austin, Texas www.iNetProfit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (512)327-9068 -----Original Message----- Gramolini Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L At least in 8.0.x the oracle intelligent agent process are dbsnmp processes. Are you sure that these are oracle processes and not OS related. Ruth ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:20 PM > 8.1.7.2.5 under Win2k Server > > I just discovered that my four SNP processes were sitting around, doing no > work, taking up about 500MB of RAM. Is this normal? >... -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jack C. Applewhite INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
