> > --- "Daniel W. Fink" <Daniel.Fink@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > one site had posting routines running for hours, > frequently hanging - not because they took a long time > to actually execute, but due to the app code causing a > series of serializations which were manifested as > blocked sessions. (users hitting ctrl-alt-del left > around zombies, which on win32 - PMON is notoriously > lazy in actually terminating the thread and cleaning > up the wreckage). I knew nothing about it until I was > onsite - and a user was testing routines after an > 8.1.7.4 to 9.2.0.4 migration (on a saturday) - during > actual acceptance testing. "Oh - these hang all the > time. we just kill the app and restart it." > Well, their zombied session (and others) would still > be sitting there, holding locks, until PMON would get > motivated. (yes, they should not have been running on > win32). > At one of my previous employers there may still be running a daemon that does a 'kill -9' on those pesky hung sessions. PMON sometimes lets them go for days. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------