Don't keep us in suspense like that. What was it? Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:47 PM, <Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Never mind. > > I tried some different search terms in Google after sending this out and > think I've found the answer. Sorry about that. > > > Jay Miller > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:34 PM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: JBoss keeps sending select 'hello' from dual > > While investigating some performance issues on two unrelated databases > one of the odd things we found was a huge number of "select 'hello' from > dual" > statements hitting the databases (as in over a million/hour). > > Further investigation leads us to believe that this is a standard > feature of JBoss connection pooling and the method it uses to check if a > connection is still alive but we couldn't find any real details on it. > > Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this before and can point > me to additional information or any way of reducing its impact. > > Thanks, > Jay Miller > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >