#### SOS - DATABASE HANG UP DURING IMPORT ####

HELP needed to find the reason for system hang up!!!

We use a Pentium-PC 166MHz with 64MB memory and we have SCSI disk drives installed. We use Oracle V. 7.3.3.1 and we have the following problem we need to solve.
When we use SQL-Loader and import tables, suddenly the system hangs up with a clack-clack noise on the harddisk which comes very exactly every second. When we try to shutdown the database with normal shutdown, the svrmgr hangs waiting. We have to use another window to start the svrmgr again and with shutdown abort we succeed. But this is not the normal way to end. All client processes SQLPLUS or WORKSHEET hang up as well.

Who knows where to start to search? Could it be, that our TCP/IP connection doesn't work correctly?
Thanks for any help

Yours sincerely

Manfred Tischendorf

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