From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Aug 31 12:46:26 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7VHkPOx004557 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:46:25 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7VHkLIP004543 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:46:22 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 029E61E7F50; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:46:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27621-04; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:46:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 750921E7E9C; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:46:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:43:58 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Beckstrom" To: , , , , Subject: 9i shared servers (dispatcher) hung Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_BB99E069.721305C5" X-archive-position: 24842 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: JBECKSTROM@gcrta.org Precedence: normal Reply-To: JBECKSTROM@gcrta.org X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS autolearn=no version=2.63 --=_BB99E069.721305C5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit People could not connect via shared server - hung. So tried stopping the dispatchers and restarting them. I did: alter system shutdown immediate 'D000' ; alter system shutdown immediate 'D001' ; In alert log I see the following. idle dispatcher 'D000' terminated, pid = (13, 1) I do not see d001 stopping. If do a lsnrctl services it still shows d001. If do: ALTER SYSTEM SET DISPATCHERS=''(address=(host=10.20.7.11)(proto =tcp))(dispatchers=2)''; Then lsnrctl services shows d000, d001 and d002. I ended up bouncing the database. I had to do a shutdown abort since shutdown immediate hung - probably due to dispatcher d001 getting stuck. Any ideas on why a dispatcher would get stuck? Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 --=_BB99E069.721305C5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: HTML

People could not connect via shared server - hung. So tried stopping the dispatchers and restarting them. I did:
alter system shutdown immediate 'D000' ;
alter system shutdown immediate 'D001' ;

In alert log I see the following.
idle dispatcher 'D000' terminated, pid = (13, 1)

I do not see d001 stopping. If do a lsnrctl services it still shows d001.

If do:
ALTER SYSTEM SET DISPATCHERS=''(address=(host=10.20.7.11)(proto =tcp))(dispatchers=2)'';

Then lsnrctl services shows d000, d001 and d002.

I ended up bouncing the database. I had to do a shutdown abort since shutdown immediate hung - probably due to dispatcher d001 getting stuck. Any ideas on why a dispatcher would get stuck?

Jeffrey Beckstrom
Database Administrator
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
1240 W. 6th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44113

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