Has anyone seen the following condition in 8.1.7 on Solaris 9, all 64 bit: 1: The database appears to be frozen. New connections do not reject, but don't come back to the client either. 2: Dedicated server processes amount to ~ 150 sessions where the db process and sessions limits are up around 400 3: Database will not shutdown immediate even after half an hour of waiting. Must use shutdown abort. 4: Cannot see what v$lock contains. Connection as sysdba comes back to a command prompt, but about the only thing you can do is abort the instance. 5: Memory(vmstat) appears normal, cpu loading is low and idle is high. 6: Sar does not indicate any disks being hit for anything. Io appears to be non existent. 7: Alert log does not contain anything outside of the normal redo switching activity. No user dump files either. Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA 45 Bartlett St Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA Tel.: 598.573.1978 |Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell:508.742.5795 RGoulet@xxxxxxxxxx : POWERING TRANSFORMATION