+---------- On Apr 23, Barry Books said: > I have not run on Linux in a while but when I did I remember having to set > the database handle timeout to a very large number otherwise I had this > problem. I think there is a bug in the database driver on Linux since I > don't have this problem on Solaris.
There was a bug where closing a handle would hang, but I'm pretty sure that only happened when using the BEQUEATH adapter, which Janine isn't using. Janine, I assume you've looked in your bdump, cdump, and udump directories for evidence. Is the defunct process a child of nsd?
