Re: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Christian Trassens
You should wait for PMON ending its job of rollback the transaction of that killed session. Since one of the releases of 8i that duty is a new one for the SMON. You have few options. If you are in a hurry, you could do shutdown abort. First issue an alter system checkpoint; just in case a maybe

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000]
If you did a shutdown abort, wouldn't you still have to wait for the rollback to happen during instance recovery on the startup? I've never tried this - I usually just suffer through the rollback. Jim __ Jim Hawkins Oracle Database Administrator

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Christian Trassens
Yes, but it is painless in comparison with the one done through shutdown immediate. --- HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you did a shutdown abort, wouldn't you still have to wait for the rollback to happen during instance recovery on the startup? I've never tried

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Page, Bruce
Pay Oracle now or pay Oracle later If you did a shutdown abort, wouldn't you still have to wait for the rollback to happen during instance recovery on the startup? I've never tried this - I usually just suffer through the rollback. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Right, as we like to say 'you can pay smon now or you can pay him later' but he will get his due. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:50 AM If you did a shutdown abort, wouldn't you still have to wait

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread A. Bardeen
Jim, No, since 7.3 SMON does the rollback in the background upon startup. If a user session attempts to access a row that is part of an uncommitted transaction that needs rolling back then that user session will take over the rollback of that transaction. HTH, -- Anita --- HAWKINS, JAMES W

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
gee, I thought it was pay Oracle now AND pay Oracle later :) From: Page, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ? Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 07:16:08 -0800 Pay Oracle now

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Christian Trassens
of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ? Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 07:16:08 -0800 Pay Oracle now or pay Oracle later If you did a shutdown abort, wouldn't you still have to wait for the rollback to happen during instance recovery

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Christopher Spence
Doing a shutdown abort is hardly dangerous. Granted, it is not as clean as shutdown normal or shutdown abort, but it is not dangerous. All it does is severe the connections. When the instance comes up, it goes through and starts rolling back looking through rbs and redo logs. I look at

RE: how to stop a killed session bothering me ?

2001-08-07 Thread Christian Trassens
Yes upon startup. When you kill and the session doesn't leave their locks and changes its serial# as a few of its symptons, PMON take charge. --- A. Bardeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, No, since 7.3 SMON does the rollback in the background upon startup. If a user session attempts to