Gurus, Can anyone please enlighten.. Restarting dead background process...has become pain, Shutdown or Startup database takes over 15 mintutes. ## Oracle EBS 11.5.10.2/ Oracle DB 10.2.0.4 on Solaris 10 Starting Oracle instance or shutting down takes over 15 mts Alert log file has the following repeated "Restarting dead background process QMNC...." == Starting background process QMNC QMNC started with pid=33, OS id=235 Sat Oct 30 20:13:05 2010 Restarting dead background process QMNC QMNC started with pid=33, OS id=418 Sat Oct 30 20:18:22 2010 Restarting dead background process QMNC QMNC started with pid=33, OS id=522 ............. ## Relevant Init.ora parameters set in the system are *aq_tm_processes=8 job_queue_processes=10* ## Thank you for your time. Regards, -- Bala Rao