RE: V$session

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Funnily enough I have just been trying to identify rogue processes at the Unix level and did the following

Ps -ef|grep oracle | sort -nr +2

Which gave me a lsit of processes with the 3rd field not set to a genuine owner process. I removed all the pmon, arch processes etc and was left with the following line
oracle 22138 1 0 16:52:16 - 0:00 oracleeval
(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=no)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)))

Going into sqlplus I queried V$session with the following query

select sid,serial#,paddr,process from v$session order by 2,4

and determined that the process 22138 was not listed in Oracle and therefore was defunct. I therefore believe that it is correct to kill -9 the Unix process.

Is my thinking correct on all this

John

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