Re: spurious threads

[Tanel Poder]

Hi!   Orakill is able to kill threads based on thread id. But since you can't find out the "runaway" thread id-s from v$process, you could find all thread id-s in oracle.exe, minus those spids which exist in v$process and kill those. But I definitely recommend to turn to support first, because killing threads that way isn't a nice thing to do in production system and might be good enough only for temporary workaround, not for continous usage.   Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffrey Beckstrom To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: spurious threads We have had an ongoing problem for nearly 1.5 years now starting with 8.1.7.3.2.  If we patch the Oracle Apps 11i, a majority of the time, the oracle.exe process gets a runaway thread.  A thread exists in the oracle.exe but not in v$process/v$session.  Shutting down the database does not resolve the problem.  Only stopping the service will resolve it.    Two weeks ago implemented FND G/HRMS F in dev/test with production scheduled for this weekend.  Since then have noticed high thread counts.  Dev has topped out at 1000+, test is currently at 809 with only 50 v$process entries!!!!   Help.   Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 781-4204