[AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
Hi all, Remember my emergency a few weeks ago where we moved an nsd 2.3.3 site onto Redhat 7.2 and it blew up on me? We did a hasty upgrade to nsd 3.3+ad13 and it's running much better now, with one glaring exception - over time, connections to Oracle start dying: oracle 674 670 1 11:29

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread C. R. Oldham
> The Oracle driver is version 2.6, according to it's > version.h. Janine, Don't know if this is very helpful, but we do not see this behavior. Our site doesn't do many LOBs or large files though. What version of the Oracle client and server are you on? -- C. R. Oldham, Director of Technology

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
On 4/23/02 12:19 PM, "C. R. Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What version of the Oracle client and server are you on? Good point, CR, that would be useful info wouldn't it! The Oracle version is 8.1.7.3 (the .3 coming from an Oracle patchset). janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.ne

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread C. R. Oldham
> Good point, CR, that would be useful info wouldn't it! The > Oracle version is 8.1.7.3 (the .3 coming from an Oracle patchset). Data point--probably not very helpful. Our production Oracle install is 8.1.6.2, but we have a dev box running 8.1.7.2. Neither show any defunct processes. All our

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Barry Books
From: Janine Sisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct Hi all, Remember my emergency a few weeks ago where we moved an nsd 2.3.3 site onto Redhat 7.2 and it blew up on me? We did a hasty upgra

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct > > > Hi all, > > Remember my emergency a few weeks ago where we moved an nsd 2.3.3 site onto > Redhat 7.2 and it blew up on me? We did a hasty upg

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread C. R. Oldham
> CR, just wondering, why do you use MTS? Any particular reason? Back when we had named user licenses for Oracle another app we had (IIS based) had a tendency to suck up all our allowable licenses. So we configured MTS to allow more "users" on the IIS system to login. We just left it in place,

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:26:14AM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > Data point--probably not very helpful. Our production Oracle install is > 8.1.6.2, but we have a dev box running 8.1.7.2. Neither show any > defunct processes. All our aolservers connect over Net8/tcp and use > MTS. CR, just wond

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Rob Mayoff
+-- On Apr 23, Barry Books said: > I have not run on Linux in a while but when I did I remember having to set > the database handle timeout to a very large number otherwise I had this > problem. I think there is a bug in the database driver on Linux since I > don't have this problem on Sol

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread C. R. Oldham
> CR, just wondering, why do you use MTS? Any particular reason? I just recalled, too, that I think InterMedia needs it for some reason... -- C. R. Oldham, Director of Technology NCA CASI Arizona State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] V:480-965-8703 F:480-965-9423

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
On 4/23/02 1:30 PM, "Rob Mayoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Janine, I assume you've looked in your bdump, cdump, and udump > directories for evidence. Yep - nothing whatsoever of interest. > Is the defunct process a child of nsd? Yes, it is. There are only a couple of defuncts right now (I'

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Janine Sisk
Well... I concluded that I was not using BEQUEATH because I looked at listener.ora, sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora and saw only "PROTOCOL = TCP" and "PROTOCOL = IPC". But I just noticed that when I do a ps, I see oracle8429 8404 2 14:46 ?00:00:07 oracle (DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRES

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Janine Sisk wrote: > Clearly, it appears that I might be using the BEQUEATH adapter after all. I > did some research in the docs but couldn't find anything which explained how > to choose one over the other (I'm sure it's there, I just couldn't find it).

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Janine Sisk
Now we're getting somewhere! I made that change, now let's see if the defunct processes come back. Thanks, Andrew! janine On 4/25/02 3:08 PM, "Andrew Piskorski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Janine Sisk wrote: > >> Clearly, it appears that I might be u

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Rob Mayoff
+-- On Apr 25, Janine Sisk said: > Well... I concluded that I was not using BEQUEATH because I looked at > listener.ora, sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora and saw only "PROTOCOL = TCP" and > "PROTOCOL = IPC". But I just noticed that when I do a ps, I see You need to set your datasource properl

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Janine Sisk
Now this is interesting. I actually messed up following Andrew's directions; I set DataSource to my ORACLE_SID, which is the name I usually use for my datasource. In this case, however, Oracle named it INST1_HTTP (??). Things are working, either because it knows it's the SID or because the SID

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-26 Thread Janine Sisk
I can now report that we still see no defunct processes, so this seems to have fixed the problem. Many thanks to all! janine On 4/25/02 5:33 PM, "Janine Sisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now this is interesting. I actually messed up following Andrew's > directions; I set DataSource to my OR