It very well could be a hardware problem...but I don't know how to prove it. until I can...it's strictly an oracle problem as far as my company is concerned. -----Original Message----- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:Rich.Jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:11 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: very odd problem....oracle support has been no help so far. Are you sure it's not hardware related? We lost a disk this AM that one = of our 8.1.7.4.0 DBs uses on our HP-UX 11.0 test system. Even after we = were able to clear out most of the hung processes (we have a cron job = that connects to the DB every 15 mins) so the system could fork new = processes, PMON, DBWRs, and LGWR are not killable. I aborted the = instance and all, but no luck. At least this was on a test system. GL! Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator rich.jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------