Linux RH3, 10.1.2 OEM We had our box crash... I thought it went all the way down.... I am checking with the Unix team. I know they had to bring the linux box up in interactive mode. The question is we found a java process still running timestamped before the crash.. It was a oc4j for OEM. We were having HUGE DB spikes when the AWR ran each hour... I stopped the process tried to restart it and it failed. Once I killed the java process I could bring it up just fine and things ran better. There was no Oracle process associated with it. I have also had an issue with altering a system parameter via OEM specifically PMON target. the OS process and oracle sql just hung and caused performance problems. I did a kill -9 to the Unix process and killed the oracle process. The Oracle process was marked for kill but never died.. I tried to wake up SMON several times but the process did not died until I bounced the database. I opened up a tar with Oracle regarding the PMON/Smon issue but they told me to bounce the db and try to upgrade (which we are going to do 10.2 ) Anybody see anything like this? Thanks as always. Kathy __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l