On 6/8/05, Marquez, Chris <cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Man I knew I was going to get *smart* comments when I wrote this post. > But hey even "Shutdown abort" is slow sometimes. > Any other *good* ideas... :0) ...and... >Sorry Mark...good question; >Oracle 9203 >AIX 5.3 >Other DBA's claim that the same app running on; >Oracle 9203 >RH Linux 3 >shuts down fast *every* time!? Shutdown abort can be slow? Shutdown immediate is fast for low # connections and slow for high # connections? Shutting down an another OS is always fast (regardless of # of connections)? Obviously this suggests an OS issue. Is AIX having trouble killing processes, or releasing file handles, or something? I've never worked on AIX so that is pure speculation. Steven -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l