Oracle Database Process OS id: 799228 alive after kill

Cause:

The operating system takes time to kill the process.

On some platforms it takes some time to kill processes -- AIX being one of those platforms

There have been previous reports of shutdown taking time on AIX and after all Oracle waits were taken out of the picture it was determined to be due to the way the kill command is implemented on that platform.

Bug 4931101 ERRORS IN ALERT LOG DURING SHUTDOWN

Solution:

Solution

If you ignore this error, the process will eventually be shut down and the database shutdown can also be completed successfully.

Ignore the error as all processes will be closed and shutdown will complete successfully.