Yes, it was because of rollback activity done it by PMON. You needed to shutdown abort because an immediate do rollback too.
Your case is an example of deferred transaction recovery. After startup SMON will do the work that PMON has left. Regards. --- "Daiminger, Helmut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I got a call from one of our developers and was told > that his app was hung > on the dev box. So I issued an "alter system kill > session" command. It took > about 30 seconds then I got the message: session > marked for kill. > > But the connection still showed up in v$session, > even after 5 minutes it was > still there. Then I decided to shut down the db > (which was ok since he was > the only developer on the box): immediate didn't > work (i.e. it took about 3 > mins and nothing happened), so I issued a shutdown > abort and restarted the > instance. > > Any idea what was going on? Why did it take so long? > Was it all rollback > activity? > > This is 8.1.7 on sun Solaris. > > Thanks, > Helmut > > > ===== ENG. Christian Trassens Senior DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +34-699240979 +34-649824704 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Christian Trassens INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
