Please assist - strange prstat / unable to kill process (-9)

Hi Guys,
I have some questions and I hope someone here will be able to help. Kindly refer to below for my prstat output.
1. I have this ora10g process taking 8.3 CPU (sftp-server2/1). Just now, our dba attempted to perform a sftp from a remote macine to this machine, however, the process has already been terminated. We tried to perform a kill -9 <pid>, however, the process is still there? Any other way to kill it since rebooting the mission critical server is not an option.
2. From prstat -a, we can see the total RSS by ora10g is 362G. It won't be possible right as our server has only 32 GB of memory. Anyone can advise? Is it normal?
prtdiag:
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire V890
System clock frequency: 150 MHz
Memory size: 32768 Megabytes
prstat -a:
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
15443 ora10g 3152K 1608K cpu1 0 0 2:12:45 8.3% sftp-server2/1
20170 nsm 1730M 1445M cpu4 0 0 16:10:22 7.1% oracle/1
20139 nsm 642M 449M sleep 59 0 2:45:36 3.4% oracle/1
27064 ora10g 641M 447M sleep 59 0 0:00:17 0.7% oracle/1
20147 nsm 642M 549M sleep 59 0 1:54:47 0.7% oracle/1
29529 nsm 2135M 1030M sleep 59 0 0:01:12 0.6% oracle/1
20175 nsm 642M 449M sleep 59 0 1:34:41 0.4% oracle/1
20161 nsm 642M 449M sleep 59 0 1:20:21 0.3% oracle/1
20145 nsm 642M 449M sleep 59 0 1:21:10 0.3% oracle/1
20150 nsm 642M 449M sleep 59 0 0:50:01 0.2% oracle/1
10230 oracle9i 2143M 1015M sleep 59 0 3:04:46 0.2% oracle/35
28159 nsm 642M 453M sleep 59 0 0:01:06 0.2% oracle/1
20171 nsm 643M 449M sleep 59 0 0:44:10 0.2% oracle/1
20172 nsm 1730M 981M sleep 59 0 0:46:05 0.2% oracle/1
20144 nsm 450M 349M sleep 59 0 0:52:51 0.2% oracle/1
NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
56 nsm 26G 18G 3.1% 33:25:26 16%
513 ora10g 503G 362G 65% 22:26:19 9.6%
183 oracle9i 373G 180G 32% 4:24:06 2.0%
87 root 489M 192M 0.0% 2:58:27 0.4%
7 jgxu 20M 13M 0.0% 0:00:22 0.1%
Total: 850 processes, 8444 lwps, load averages: 3.35, 2.83, 4.06
Please advise.
thanks

Hi,
It may b possible coz of some temproray issue or may be dispatcher connection is closed.. first try starting java stack , if it doen't work out try starting dispatcher and the j2ee stack.
Regards
Aashish Sinha

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