My recommendation #1 would be not to shutdown at all.
Oracle spent all that time and money devising
wonderfully complex memory management (which they pass
on to us as license dollars) so shutting down is like
throwing money in the toilet..
My recommendation #2 is (for those rare times when you
need to shutdown) to not use shutdown immediate -
because they got the name wrong :-) If you need to
shutdown, I'd just do:
alter system checkpoint;
shutdown abort
hth
connor
- Steve Perry <sperry_at_sprynet.com> wrote: >
MessageI hope somebody can help me with this
> shutdown problem. There's 2 questions unless: how to
> troubleshoot a stalled shutdown and the best way to
> deal with it.
>
> #1 - Database hangs during shutdown
> We have several instances running 8.1.7.3 on Win2k
> and continue to have intermittent shutdown problems.
> The shutdown never completes.
> Here's are the steps used to stop the database
> 1.) Stop the application servers
> 1.) run a kill session script to kill all remaining
> sessions except the one running the script
> 2.) issue shutdown immediate and hope it shuts down.
>
> At this point, the database closes but it never
> dismounts.
> We never receive the "Completed: ALTER DATABASE
> DISMOUNT"
>
> Is there anything I can do to diagnose the problem
> at this point?
>
> After 15 minutes, Arcserve backs up the files to
> tape (delay field in arcserve job).
> After the backup is complete, the database startup
> script is run.
> The alert log says the startup is normal, but no
> connections are allowed into the database.
>
> I either have to do a shutdown abort or stop the
> service and then I can start the database.
> I wrote a script to detect the shutdown hangs that
> will page me, do a shutdown abort, startup and then
> shutdown immediate (before the backup job starts)
> There's not much I can do when it stalls and I don't
> mind running the script if it won't corrupt my
> database.
> Is there a better way to handle this?
>
> I checked metalink and opened a tar.
> Oracle said it was a security dll issue with MS and
> that I should change the scripts to shutdown the
> service instead of using svrmgrl or sqlplus. That
> was fine until I realized that stopping the service
> will do a shutdown immediate. If the database
> doesn't complete before the
> ora_<SID>_shutdown_timeout value, it does a shutdown
> abort (or equivalent).
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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