Re: killed sessions staying around

Thanks Ian, for making me RTFM on 'kill session'.

I wasn't aware of the 'immediate' clause.

Jared

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 22:35, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote:
> "alter system kill session '<sid>, serial#' immediate;" almost always
> works. The immediate argument must be include don the first attempt. if
> you issue, "alter system kill session '<sid>, serial#';" and then issue,
> "alter system kill session '<sid>, serial#' immediate;", Oracle will
> respond with "session marked for kill".
>
> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
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> The trick to succefully killing a session is to kill the OS process first,
> then kill the
> session if it is still lingering.
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> This is the way it needs to be done on unix, haven't tried it on NT yet,
> but will soon. :)
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> Jared
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> Killed several sessions, but none will terminate. All were connected via
> ODBC. Users have rebooted, etc. These sessions are several days old and
> killed today. Was going to try ORAKILL, but there is no thread number.
> Apparently, entry is on v$session but no corresponding row in v$process.
> Oracle only suggestion is to exit application gracefully. Oh yeah, like I
> can enforce that - don't touch the power off switch.
>
> Jeffrey Beckstrom
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