On 8/7/06 1:52 PM, "David" <
daz@undertaker.homeip.net> wrote:
> 'ps -aux | grep oracle' only showed about 125-150 processes running,
> though. We killed off a bunch of processes, but the problem persisted. I
> upped the process limit to 106496, still the problem persisted. After
> about an hour 1/2, it went away.
Did you check for other processes that root might be running?
'ps -U root'
BTW, I know nothing about Oracle, but why are these processes being run as
root? Seems a bit dangerous. What if you have a buffer overflow in one of
the Oracle processes and I use it to run "arbitrary code"? :-/
...Kevin
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