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Ans: SMON (System Monitor) performs instance recovery at instance of startup. In a multiple instance system (one that uses the parallel server), SMON of one instance can also perform instance recovery other instance that have failed whereas The PMON (Process Monitor) performs process recovery when a user process fails.
