RE: beq processes preventing shutdown

Bequeath is a connection internal to the server that is connecting to the database (bequeath meaning that it doesn't go though or to the network cards). SQLPLUS at the command prompt on the database server...

I would probably find a way to more elegantly kill the process that is running rather than to resort to your three step process (although it IS a supported means by which you can shutdown your database.... so I have been told on several occasions) or have sessions time out... or make everyone log off the server when it is time to shutdown the database.

April Wells
Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA
Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas

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Our sysadmin tells me he's been experiencing problems sometimes, when trying to shutdown an Oracle 8.1.7 instance on a Solaris 64-bit environment. The shutdown "hangs up", and he can see processes like the following:

oraclePROD (DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))

>From searching around, I've been able to ascertain that these "beq"
processes are probably created by the listener in response to connect requests, but beyond that, I'm stumped!

All I've been able to advise is that he replace his "shutdown immediate" with a 3-step "shutdown abort / startup restrict / shutdown immediate" sequence, which should prevent being hung up by any "beq processes", but I'd rather feel I'd solved the problem, rather than merely sidestepping it!

Any ideas what may be causing this, and what the remedy might be?

Regards,

Paul Vincent
DBA
University of Central England

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