Re: Oracle 9i 365-day reboot issue

Remember getting hit by this one long ago. Ahhh memories!!

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• Original Message ---- From: Riyaj Shamsudeen <riyaj.shamsudeen_at_gmail.com> To: weaver1308_at_gmail.com Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 9:39:36 AM Subject: Re: Oracle 9i 365-day reboot issue

Hey Walt
I remember you :-)
That bug was between 8.0.x to 8.1.6 due to timer overflow. Note 118228.1

  Operating systems with clock ticks set to milliseconds will see this   problem after 24.8 days but typically systems have clock ticks set   to centiseconds which means the problem would not be seen for 248 days.

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Riyaj
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Walt Weaver wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Some of the older list members may remember me; I've been more or less
> away from Oracle for a few years but we still have a few old 9i
> systems I still maintain on a sporadic basis.
>
> Anyway, one of our few remaining Oracle customers recently requested
> that we bounce the Oracle instance they were on; they said there was a
> bug in 9i that required the instance be bounced at least every 365 days.
>
> Does anyone know anything about this? I haven't been able to find out
> anything about it; my Metalink account expired a long time ago and
> Googling hasn't turned up anything.
>
> Any information will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Walt Weaver, old Oracle fart (it's my 60th birthday today)
> -- Bozeman, Montana

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