why don't you try in a nice way; alter system set job_queue_processes=0; alter system set job_queue_processes=x; and it is done. sometimes datafile can be openned by process, even if they have been offlined, or even dropped. On 4/1/06, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The SNP processes do get restarted automatically. > > Whenever I do a "kill -9" for the snp process, I check and double check the > PID -- I don't want to kill the pmon > or smon or lgwr or dbwr process. Those don't restart automatically. > > Hemant > At 12:50 AM Saturday, Alessandro Vercelli wrote: > >....I got late in taking that step, as the three ora_snp instances > >released by themselves the locked filesystem....just for curiosity: if I > >had killed the snp processes, whould they restarted automatically or > >should I have restarted them? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Alessandro > > > > > > > > If there are no jobs currently running in DBA_JOBS_RUNNING, you can "kill > > > -9" the snp processes. > > > > > > Hemant > > > Hemant K Chitale > http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l