About Remedy (ARSYS) my experience is the following: - needed to recreate aradmin schema on an Oracle 8.1.7.3 database for Remedy on Win2k - all Remedy clients and Remedy server are cleanly closed but aradmin schema cannot be dropped due to multiple database sessions by aradmin itself; - database was on production so could not be closed: ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION did not release locks so needed to use ORAKILL (Metalink note 100859.1). So, on my opinion Remedy is even too much stable.... Regards, Alessandro > > > While investigating these old processes: > > > > clarify 9440 1 0 Mar 29 ? 113:22 rmworkerprocess 9331_1 > > stop > > clarify 10407 1 0 Sep 30 ? 224:15 rmworkerprocess > > 10406_1 start > > clarify 26115 1 0 Dec 24 ? 218:23 rmworkerprocess > > 26114_1 start > > clarify 5534 1 0 Sep 30 ? 161:22 rmworkerprocess 5532_1 > > start > > > > I found a DB on the box: > > > > /export/home> sqlplus > > SQL*Plus: Release 8.0.6.0.0 - Production on Thu Aug 31 11:18:08 2006 > > > > SQL> select to_char(startup_time, ' HH24:MI:SS DD-MM-YYYY') startup, > > status from v$instance ; > > > > STARTUP STATUS > > -------------------- ------- > > 14:01:05 27-11-2002 OPEN > > > > > > Got this nice session also : > > > > > > Sid Osuser Osuser Program > > LOGON_TIME > > ---- ------------------ ------------ ------------------------------ > > ----------------- > > 18 SA clarify rmworkerprocess (TNS V1-V3) > > 30-sep-2004 17:09 > > > > Sound like Remedy is a stable application. > > > > > > B. Polarski > > > ___________________________________________________________________ Mutui a tassi scontati da 30 banche. Richiedi online e risparmia. Servizio gratuito. http://click.libero.it/mutuionline -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l