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What Exactly PMON Process do And What will Happen if we Kill It Forcefully?

Updated May 18, 2018

Hello Experts,

May I know that what exactly pmon process do and what will happen if we kill it forcefully?

Kindly share your valuable views here, so i can proceed further.

Thanks in advance.


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  • 25 Sep 2015 11:24 am Sugandh Helpful Answer

    PMON process is a background process and it's enable while instance is in mount/open mode and generally it's deallocate the resources and releases the locks while any process is disconnect from database and pmon register the service name in listener.

  • 25 Sep 2015 11:29 am Nitesh Singh Helpful Answer

    PMON (process monitor ) is a mandatory process, responsibilities are 

    1> pmon is responsible for user recovery.
    2 > pmon release the resources.
    3> pmon release the locks.
    4> release the memory taken by users. 
    5> permanently check to the user connection. 
    6>restart the server process in the case of crash. 
    7>dynamical register to the database with the listner. 
    8> shutdown the database in some cases (like redo group filled no space etc cases ) 
    9>roll back.
    10> many more. 

    yes its a mendatory process so if you kill to pmon your instance will be aborted.


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