In this scenario It appears that the 'server side process' has failed, although that isn't always true. I suggest that you inspect the alert log and the dump directories to see if there are logs/dumps from the appropriate time that you can pass onto Oracle support or us for interpretation. Dave On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:18 PM, mike boligan <mboligan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I am running Oracle 11.2.0.2.0 64 bit on Solaris 10. I have a process > that runs on the database server and calls a plsql package via a shell > script like so: > > sqlplus user/pass @scriptname parm1 parm2 > > The package runs for roughly 2600 seconds and sometimes gets a ORA-03135. > The package does not fail in the same spot every time. It does not seem to > fail after x minutes either. I do have sqlnet.expire_time in sqlnet.ora > on the server, not sure that helps any as this should be using IPC. I do > see alot of log switching while the job runs, but I don't see how the > increased activity could cause this error. > > Maybe I am missing something, but I don't think I should get this error > when running a script locally on the database server. Has anyone ever seen > a similar situation or fill me in on anything I am overlooking? I am > trying avoid a sqlnet trace because of space concerns on where the output > would go. > > TIA, > Mike > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l