On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Rich Jesse < rjoralist3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's the possibility that the connections aren't logged via the listener > (bequeath connections do not use the listener) or you may have a large > number of job processes available that all became active, but the listener > log could be a start for you. > > HTH! GL! > > Rich > > > Yeah, definitely the listener is a good place to start. But, also in 11g auditing defaults to DB and audits CREATE SESSION, so if it hasn't been disabled there may be some answers in DBA_AUDIT_SESSION: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28320/statviews_3071.htm Sometimes it's not new sessions that are the cause of the problem, but rather sessions that are supposed to close are failing to do so. Andy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l