On 4/19/05, K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I couldn't follow the complete thread. So someone might have already > posted this info. >=20 > There is a timeout for shutdown (I think starting from 9iR2) which > defaults to 60 minus. If the active calls (!) don't complete in that > time, the instance just updates the alertlog and doesn;t shutdown its > own. You need to shutdown abort. >=20 > It is not documented btw :D Oracle is planning to update the administrator guide about this 1-hour time-out (in the 10.2b3 book apparently.) That's a real problem when huge rollbacks occur at shutdown: if they're to last more than 1 hour, the shutdown is cancelled. Jerome -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l