Could not kill a session in V$SESSION

Problem Description : 

Alter system kill session

 Resolution : 

The alter system kill session command did not kill the job in v$session. I tried running it with alter system kill session '30,521'immediate but that did not work either. The status changed to killed but would not go away. I then got the process id number off of the v$sessions table and killed the process in unix using the kill -9 F##### command. this allowed for the process to disapear in v$sessions

 Revision Date : 1/24/2007

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