On 4/19/05, Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had a problem with the database that appeared > to be hanging during large loads, and "hanging" was occuring in regular i= nt=3D > ervals, which > immediately made me suspect checkpoints and disregard suspicions about lo= ck=3D > ing. As it turns > out, I was right. The database had a standby, and, of course, there was a= l=3D > og_archive_dest_2, > defined as MANDATORY. I immediately suspected network, but the T3 line wa= s =3D > running at <0.1% of capacity. > It turned out that an ethernet port on the switch was blinking re=3D > d....the machine > had a problem reaching the router.=20 >=20 > --=3D20 > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA Mladen, careful where you use ratios :). 0.1% utilization of a GigE network card would translate into a 67% utilized T1 line. Gotta love running sqlnet over WANs ... there is an adventure in every epis= ode. I had something somewhat similar, whereby the monitoring software running on the firewall was on the fast ethernet side. the quote was: "But the T1 is only running at 1% utilization". Yes. It was physically impossible for it to get to 2% as a T1 line won't handle 2 Mbps. Ratios. Can't kill em. Paul --=20 #/etc/init.d/init.cssd stop -- f=3Dma, divide by 1, convert to moles. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l