What
is kproc process in Oracle 8 AIX?
Any idea what the process
'kproc' is ? Our DBA said that a whole load of them were running
(owned by 'oracle') at the time the database went down. It's Oracle 8.0.3.
on AIX.
Ans:
These are kernel communication
processes and there usually some for each piece of software on the machine
(currently running) as well as some root kproc's that manage memory etc.They
support your asynchronous I/O.
They have no bearing on the
fact that your instance crashed (unless someone killed some of the kprocs).