Anyone have any idea what might be happening when sessions are connecting and all but a few succeed. After that swingbench (actually charbench) just waits for a long time until those few extra succeed. Time Users TPM TPS 8:26:26 PM [0/60] 0 0 8:26:27 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:28 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:29 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:30 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:31 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:32 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:33 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:34 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:35 PM [55/60] 0 0 If I start swingbench with 80 then 78 connect. If I start it up with 10 then say 5 connect. Is there a timeout before it retries to connect missing sessions? If so is it modifiable? (This only happens on one of two databases on my machine - all the more curious) I even tried setting up prespawn with the listener but same result. one.sh just does: DB="$IP:1521:$SID" user_count=$1 min=2 max=10 runtime=01 $CHARBENCH -cs $DB -dt thin -u soe -p soe -uc $user_count -min $min -max $max -rt 0:$runtime -a -v users,tpm,tps Here are a bunch of tries: $ ./one.sh 60 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:25:29 PM [0/60] 0 0 8:25:30 PM [56/60] 0 0 8:25:31 PM [56/60] 0 0 $ ./one.sh 60 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:25:42 PM [0/60] 0 0 8:25:43 PM [58/60] 0 0 8:25:44 PM [58/60] 0 0 8:25:45 PM [58/60] 0 0 8:25:46 PM [58/60] 0 0 $ ./one.sh 60 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:25:50 PM [0/60] 0 0 8:25:51 PM [58/60] 0 0 8:25:52 PM [58/60] 0 0 8:25:53 PM [58/60] 0 0 8:25:54 PM [58/60] 0 0 j $ ./one.sh 80 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:26:04 PM [0/80] 0 0 8:26:05 PM [78/80] 0 0 $ vi one.sh $ ./one.sh 60 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:26:16 PM [0/60] 0 0 8:26:17 PM [59/60] 0 0 8:26:18 PM [59/60] 0 0 8:26:19 PM [59/60] 0 0 8:26:20 PM [59/60] 0 0 $ ./one.sh 60 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:26:26 PM [0/60] 0 0 8:26:27 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:28 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:29 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:30 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:31 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:32 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:33 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:34 PM [55/60] 0 0 8:26:35 PM [55/60] 0 0 $ ./one.sh 60 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:29:06 PM [0/60] 0 0 8:29:07 PM [57/60] 0 0 8:29:08 PM [57/60] 0 0 8:29:09 PM [57/60] 0 0 8:29:10 PM [57/60] 0 0 8:29:11 PM [57/60] 0 0 $ ./one.sh 80 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:29:25 PM [0/80] 0 0 8:29:26 PM [69/80] 0 0 8:29:27 PM [69/80] 0 0 8:29:28 PM [69/80] 0 0 $ ./one.sh 100 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:29:33 PM [0/100] 0 0 8:29:34 PM [97/100] 0 0 8:29:35 PM [97/100] 0 0 8:29:36 PM [97/100] 0 0 $ #./one.sh 100 $ ./one.sh 10 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:29:48 PM [0/10] 0 0 8:29:49 PM [3/10] 0 0 8:29:50 PM [3/10] 0 0 8:29:51 PM [3/10] 0 0 $ ./one.sh 20 Author : Dominic Giles Version : 2.4.0.845 Time Users TPM TPS 8:29:55 PM [0/20] 0 0 8:29:57 PM [10/20] 0 0 8:29:58 PM [10/20] 0 0 8:29:59 PM [10/20] 0 0 $ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l