RE: alter system v shutdown abort

  • From: "Baumgartel, Paul" <paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:35:53 +0100

orakill does have to be run on the server--it's a Windows executable that kills 
a process thread.
 

Paul Baumgartel 
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On 
Behalf Of Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:30 PM
To: Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: alter system v shutdown abort



I have never had such bad luck... but with orakill, I did come across the 
tidbit, (yet to be seconded), that it has to be run from the server itself to 
work.  

 

Joel Patterson 
Database Administrator 
joel.patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx 
x72542 
904  727-2542 


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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Jesse, Rich
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:18 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: RE: alter system v shutdown abort

 

[jaw drops]  Yes!  Don't shutdown the DB for backups!  That would seem to be a 
big nasty red mark on your uptime reports for your "HA" solution...

 

Of course, with more of the story, there could still be a need for this.  To 
date, I have never had consistent luck killing a connected process within 
Oracle on any version.  I have always had exceptions where one or more hung in 
the "sniped" state.

 

On Unix, use a combination of a shell script that shuts down the listener, 
polls v$session and kills the processes.  On Winders, you can use the Perl that 
comes with Oracle or use a [gulp] BAT file with the orakill command supplied by 
Oracle to kill the thread from the OS.

 

My $.02,

Rich

 


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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Queen Roo Roo
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:57 PM
To: Smith, Ronald [Contractor]
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: alter system v shutdown abort

The situation is that we have to have all users off so that the system can shut 
down for backup.  It's an HP_UX  HA solution that I am not familiar with.  If 
all active users are not off, the process doesn't run and the stuff hits the 
fan.  The process does a shutdown immediate as it's first action but that fails 
if a hung user is left on.  I suggested that we use my program to see if there 
are any active users and kill them.  The other option is the shutdown abort, 
startup, shutdown immediate but that might take longer than we have before 
system before the next step is excuted.  Just killing any hung users seems to 
be less  dangerous.  Any other thoughts? 

 

Thanks again,

Ruth


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