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Old 01-02-2009
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Idea:
See if your "ps" command has the "-H" (hierarchy) option .
Beware:
1) unix does not necessarily allocate process IDs in numeric order.
2) I have not noticed a process hierarchy with Oracle. On my system the parent process PPID for all Oracle processes is ID 1 (init). Yours may be different.