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What Is The Job Of Smon And Pmon Processes?

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SMON : System Monitor Process - Performs recovery after instance failure, MONITORS temporary segments and EXTENTS; cleans temp segments, coalesces free space (MANDATORY process for DB and starts by default).

PMON : Process Monitor - Recovers failed process resources. In Shared Server architecture, monitors and retarts any failed DISPATCHER or server proceses (mandatory process for DB and starts by default).

[oracle@hostname ~]$ ps -ef |grep -e pmon -e smon |grep -v grep
oracle 6755 1 0 12:59 ? 00:00:05 ora_pmon_DB1_SID
oracle 6779 1 0 12:59 ? 00:00:06 ora_smon_DB1_SID.

SMON : System Monitor Process - Performs recovery after instance failure, monitors temporary segments and extents; cleans temp segments, coalesces free space (mandatory process for DB and starts by default).

PMON : Process Monitor - Recovers failed process resources. In Shared Server architecture, monitors and retarts any failed dispatcher or server proceses (mandatory process for DB and starts by default).



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