Tanel, one more good reason to have snapper with me all the time. But here you made me curious with just one word: 'most' Do you know any background process without a session? It sounds scary! Shared Servers (MTS) comes to my mind, I just don't know what they do when no clients are connected? thanks for any advise Martin On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 00:01, Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Snapper can show it as arch processes have sessions (and populate > V$SESSION) like most other background processes... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l