No ora_* processes for live oracle db !

  • From: "Dhimant Patel" <drp4kri@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:13:12 -0400

Hi Gurus,

I just setup Oracle 10gR2 on Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike). After
creating db, during my checks on processes - by "ps -ef | grep ora_" -
nothing turned up!
I am still logged in sqlplus with following messages. Also doung tail -f on
alert log under still other session.

SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  369098752 bytes
Fixed Size                  1219496 bytes
Variable Size             130024536 bytes
Database Buffers          234881024 bytes
Redo Buffers                2973696 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> !ps -ef | grep ora_
oracle    2221  2025  0 09:12 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/bash -c ps -ef | grep
ora_
oracle    2223  2221  0 09:12 pts/0    00:00:00 grep ora_


SQL> !ps -ef | grep oracle oracle 2029 2027 0 09:04 ? 00:00:00 [sshd] oracle 2030 2029 0 09:04 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash oracle 2092 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2094 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2096 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2098 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2100 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2102 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2104 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2106 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2108 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2110 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:02 [oracle] oracle 2112 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2114 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2116 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2118 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2120 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2122 2025 1 09:05 ? 00:00:04 [oracle] oracle 2124 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2134 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2136 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] oracle 2139 2030 0 09:07 pts/1 00:00:00 tail -f /usr/software/oracle/admin/prod/bdump/alert_prod.log oracle 2142 2140 0 09:07 ? 00:00:00 [sshd] oracle 2143 2142 0 09:07 pts/2 00:00:00 -bash oracle 2224 2025 0 09:12 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/bash -c ps -ef | grep oracle

<< some X and gnome processes removed >>

Has anyone experienced this before? Is this alarming for any reason (except
"that oracle is not supported for this release of OS!") ?


Thanks, DP

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