Environment: 3-tier architecture apache on webtier Oracle Weblogic 10.3.5 on apptier Oracle 11.2.0.3.x on dbtier App Tier has a clustered filesystem shared on 6 servers. The servers are clustered through Weblogic and each runs the same applications. Every now and then the application servers lockup - there is nothing written to the logs and when I look at the weblogic console the server shows "Running" but the health does not have the OK. I attempt to shutdown the application server and the process does not stop, I then attempt to kill the process and "kill -9" or any other kill options does not remove this process. If I attempt to restart the server it fails I think because the process that won't die is holding file locks. Has anyone come across anything similar? Any workarounds to restart the application servers? Regards Bill-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l