Hi, I saw this happening in the scenario like: - there is a long running transaction running in the database - somebody shutdown abort the instance - startup - shutdown immediate right after the startup when we still have instance recovery running In such situation shutdown immediate will wait until instance recovery completes. --romas On 7/25/08, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello. > > I am trying to shutdown immediate a database (10.2.0.3). Normally it takes > couple of minutes. this time it has been > running for about 25 min. When I look at the alert.log, I see already 4 log > switches ( I have 3 logfile groups) and I > wonder what could be the reason it is taking such a long time. I also don't > remember seeing all the logswitches > after the shutdown immediate. > > Would appreciate any thoughts > > thank you > > Gene Gurevich > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >