Re: shutdown immediate - waiting for active calls to complete
Date: 1996/01/21
Message-ID: <4duepe$9oh_at_cloner2.ix.netcom.com>#1/1
sxdjd_at_orca.alaska.edu (David J. DeWolfe) wrote:
>Greetings DBA's
>Twice in the last two weeks (and 3 times in the last 2 months) a shutdown
>immediate has failed to shutdown one particular instance. The alert log shows
>the following message:
> SHUTDOWN: waiting for active calls to complete.
>and just waits and waits and waits......... until I do a shutdown abort.
>Whether or not it has something to do with it, each time i've seen this
>message it has been preceeded by several "found dead dispatcher" messages. I
>have a TAR logged with Oracle for this, but figured i'd check here as well.
>Anyone have any insight as to what may be happening? Specifics are:
Is it possible there's a long update taking place at the time of the SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE? If so it's probably just rolling back. I've had this happen to me in the middle of a refreshing a 700mb snapshot. It took a couple of hours for the rollback to complete before finally shutting down the instance.
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