RE: Killed session

  • From: Mayen.Shah@xxxxxxxxxx
  • To: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:59:33 -0500

Thank you Dick,

I really appreciate help I am getting from you and other members.

I already checked v$lock. Only lock is on table held by killed session.

Thanks
Mayen






"Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
Nov 12 2008 01:49 PM

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RE: Killed session


Then I'd say your stuck with having to bounce the database.  You might 
want to look around & see if there is a blocking lock.  Look for the 
blocking column in V$LOCK.
 
Dick Goulet 
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From: Mayen.Shah@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Mayen.Shah@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:47 PM
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Subject: RE: Killed session


No distributed transaction involved. 

Thanks 
Mayen 





"Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
Nov 12 2008 12:41 PM 


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RE: Killed session



First thing I'd look at is if a distributed transaction is in process. 
Look in dba_2pc_pending as the session may be looking for a foreign 
database that is where this session started.  Otherwise you may have one 
of those instances where a database restart is the only way you'll clear 
the locks. 
 
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PAREXEL International 
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Subject: Killed session


Hi Listers, 


Oracle 9.2.0.8 on Solaris 9 

In one of my production database session was long running.  Session was 
killed last night. Since then session is marked as KILLED in v$session. 
This killed session is holding locks on few tables and causing further 
problems. 

USED_UBLK in v$transaction is constant at 287 since late last night. 

I identified unix process and killed at os level two hours ago, still 
session would not go away. (os process is gone already) 

What else should I be looking at? How do I get rid of KILLED session? 

I do not have luxury to recycle database. 

Your help is greatly appreciated. 

Thanks 
Mayen 

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