Hi Mark, I am not using CRS/Grid for this particular environment. I did bounce the DB listener and the entire middle tier stack after setting SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME= 1. I do have a four-node RAC with PCP running on Solaris and have not run into this issue there. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Mark Burgess [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:36 PM To: Hameed, Amir Cc: Oracle List List Subject: Re: DCD (dead connection detection) on Linux Hi Amir, are you using clusterware to start the database listeners automatically or starting them manually whilst logged into the RDBMS unix account with the AutoConfig generated env file sourced? Reason I ask is that if you use CRS to start the listener you need to have IFILE links back into the AutoConfig generated network config files as follows: In your RDBMS $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/sqlnet.ora add the following entry (do this on all db nodes): IFILE=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/$CONTEXT_NAME/sqlnet.ora Without adding in the IFILE links to the AutoConfig generated network files CRS will not pick up the AutoConfig settings. By the way - you will probably need to bounce the db listeners to have this take affect as well along with bouncing the R12 mid-tier as well if this is the solution. Regards, Mark On 31 Oct 2013, at 11:50 am, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, > RDBMS - 11.2.0.3 > Linux - RHEL 6/U4 > Oracle E-Business Suite R12 > I have noticed that DCD is not working quickly enough in my database even if > I set "SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME= 1" on the database server. If I crash my Linux > host running the http server while I have connections established to the > application, I can see that dead connections in the database corresponding to > the application connections take somewhere from 12-15 minutes to get cleaned > up. I can see that the TCP keep-alive parameters on Linux are set as shown > below: > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time > 7200 > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl > 75 > > Does anyone know what are all the parameters that need to be set to allow DCD > work within 1-2 minutes? > > Thanks, > Amir > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l