What resources are we talking about? If a session is in the middle of a transaction, Oracle has to rollback the changes-- that can take as long as it took to make the changes in the first place. Is that what you're seeing? Justin Cave Distributed Database Consulting, Inc. http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Database Admin Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:15 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Killed session doesnt release resources Hi, I am facing a problem in my Dual Processor ,4 Gb RAM ,HP-UX 11.11,Oracle 9.2.0 Box.Whenever a session is killed it doesnt release the resources a long time.The other problem I face is if someone uses a heavy Report (Oracle Report Developer Executable) and then sits idle even then it doesnt release the resource. Any inputs??. Deep ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------