Re: Unknown sessions

Ronnie wrote:

> HI,
>
> Constantly I see many unknown sessions on my DBA studio which do not
> have a username,osuser,machine name and programs associated with them.
>
> But they do have a session Id, Status and os process Id fields
> populated and the status is always active.
>
> What are these sessions. I have killed them in the past without any
> issues but they keep popping up.
>
> ANy Ideas what these are.
>
> Thanks
> Ron

Leave them alone. They are the processes such as the log writer, database writer, etc. If something shows as SYS ... anywhere ... don't touch it.

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