I am on Sun platform where the connection broke after 30 min if the OS session is idle. I logon to sqlplus and run a query using bulk collect to insert into a table. The query is big as the table involved contain 6 CLOB and generally take around 1 hr to insert a few hundred thousand record into the table. I just realized and found that mine OS connection is broken but when i checked the OS process, I find that mine process is still running and I used truss and it look like it is calling open,pwrite kind of system call. but as it is alread around 2 hours been passed and so I am worried if it is good to kill the session as the process is really also putting small recource on CPU as per the TOP output. Please advice as I thought that once the connection broke, the database connection is also gone and the connected process might be runaway process. I had to insert the big data and I need some expert advice Thanks SAnjay __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------