Re: Surprising event

2001-09-13 Thread Connor McDonald
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Are you regularly performing the appropriate analysis of optimiser stats? Its not too uncommon for performance to suddenly go over the edge rather than degrade in the nice linear fashion. For example, sorts suddenly needing to go to disk - just

Re[2]: Surprising event

2001-09-13 Thread dgoulet
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Connor, For the most part I agree, but I have also seen circumstances where a function (in my case) works very consistently for months and then goes totally south right out of the clear blue. This gets especially nerve racking when there are

Re[2]: Surprising event

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Barger
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I have noticed in the past that if you pin certain packages or functions in memory, they can become corrupt. They still show their state as being 'VALID', but they are of no use. The only thing I have found to do is recompile. We try to

Surprising event

2001-09-12 Thread Csillag Zsolt
Hi, We have a cgi that displays data from oracle tables. The program has been running for several months perfectly. Last week every time it started, it seemed to almost freeze the Oracle server , it didn' t end the operation (many Select statements). After several hours of work we removed