Thanks. That clarifies things. Time to look into this some more.
mkb --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > try 'kill -l' where the -l is an ell as in -list. > > Jared > > > > > > > mkb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 07/16/2002 11:41 AM > Please respond to ORACLE-L > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: RE: How do I check whether a > rollback activity is going on > > > I was wondering where a list of kill signals (kill > -1, > kill -9 etc) can be found. > > I've always used kill -9 but I'd rather try > something > less drastic first, even though I've never run into > problems using kill -9 pid before. man pages don't > seem to list the signals (Solaris 7). > > thanks > > mkb > > (hmmm....can you say mutating thread...) > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Because 'kill' and 'kill -15' don't seem to work > > consistently. > > > > kill -9 says 'kill with extreme prejudice, take no > > prisoners!', whereas > > your garden variety kill allows a process to call > > for a priest, eat a last > > meal and smoke a cigarette, all of which take too > > much time. > > > > Jared > > > > > > > > > > > > "BALA,PRAKASH (Non-HP-USA,ex1)" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 07/16/2002 09:23 AM > > Please respond to ORACLE-L > > > > > > To: Multiple recipients of list > ORACLE-L > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: > > Subject: RE: How do I check whether > a > > rollback activity is going on > > > > > > Jared, I always kill the Oracle session first. So > > could you elaborate why > > you use 'kill -9'. > > > > TIA > > Prakash > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:38 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > > It could be that pmon is rolling back the > > transaction. > > > > It could also be that pmon is never going to clean > > it up, which sometimes > > happens when killing an active transaction. > > > > I am a strong advocate of using 'orakill' on > > NT/Win2k and 'kill -9' on > > Unix to kill the process, rather than killing the > > session in Oracle. > > > > If your session has still not been cleaned up, > > you'll understand my > > position, as you will now have to bounce your > > database. > > > > Check to see if the session is holding a lock, if > > so, and an unreasonable > > amount of time has passed for pmon to do its > > cleanup, then you likely > > need to bounce the database. > > > > Jared > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gurelei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 07/15/2002 02:39 PM > > Please respond to ORACLE-L > > > > > > To: Multiple recipients of list > ORACLE-L > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: > > Subject: How do I check whether a > > rollback activity is > > going > > on > > > > > > Hi. > > > > Here is my situation. I have killed an ORacle > > transaction. Oracle came back with "session marked > > for > > kill" and the status of the session is now > "Killed". > > I presume that the reason is that Oracle needs to > > roll > > back the changes made. Can I confirm whether this > is > > indeed the case via some system tables? > > > > thakns > > > > gene > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! 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