Hi Rich, Thank you for the valuable inputs. I am waiting for the defunct processes to re appear. Planning to raise a SR. lets see. Thanks again Cheers Sriram Kumar On 4/27/06, Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Yup. 10.1.0.4 on Solaris 9. The defuncts death spiraled until we ran > out of OS process slots and I had to bounce the instance. All 10000+ > processes that I saw were from MMON. And this was on a production box. > From the SR: "Development indicates that the MMON messages occur when > manageability features like automatic snapshots stop if one executes 'alter > system enable restricted session' and then 'alter system disable restricted > session'." > > I had not touched any of the ADDM stuff in this database, so I'm not > exactly buying the answer, but YMMV. > > GL! > > Rich > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Sriram Kumar > *Sent:* Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:25 AM > *To:* ORACLE-L > *Subject:* Defunct processes in 10g(mmon and qmnc) > > Hello Gurus, > > Environment: 10.1.0.4 > OS : Solaris 9 (Sunfire V440) > > Was casually checking process listing of oracle id and found a lot (about > 70-80 processes) of <defunct> processes and most of these processes have > thier PPID as qmnc' s (queue monitor) or mmon's (mem mon) process id. being > a test box I had killed qmnc and mmon and these processes disappeared. > > I am closely monitoring the systems for these symptoms again and plan to > raise a SR with metablink. Have any one of you seen this before? > > Best Regards > > Sriram Kumar > > > > >