login errors

[Kevin]

On 8/7/06 1:52 PM, "David" <daz at 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