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RE: Limiting Concurrent Sessions Not Working

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 05:57:31 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005AA6D0.20030604121451@fatcity.com>

OK,
now watch out for Oracle bug 643709 which can send your users a pile of "ORA-02394: exceeded session limit on IO usage, you are being logged off"  even though you don't have any IO limits set.  It's fixed in 8.1.x.
 
Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA

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size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Sam Bootsma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:30 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Limiting Concurrent Sessions Not Working

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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks Dick, it is working now.
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have "resource_limit = true" in init.ora?  If you don't it defaults to FALSE & the profile has no effect.

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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:10 PMTo: Multiple recipients of
list ORACLE-LSubject: Limiting
Concurrent Sessions Not Working
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am trying to limit concurrent sessions on my database.  The Oracle documentation says I can do it.  However, when I follow the steps (create profile with sessions per user set to one, then assign Oracle user to this profile) the user is not stopped from exceeding the number of concurrent sessions.  I tested this by connecting using Sql Plus.  I even tried bouncing the database, to see if that makes a difference, but to no avail. 
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Any ideas what is happening?  Am I missing something?  Is this a problem/bug with Oracle 7.3.4?  The output below shows the steps I followed to create the profile and user.  It also shows multiple connections to the database after bouncing the instance.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sam.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SQL> create profile sam limit sessions_per_user 1;
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Profile created.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SQL> alter user sam profile sam;
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SQL> grant create session to sam;
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Grant succeeded.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SQL> l
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  1  select limit
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  2  from dba_profiles
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  3  where profile=''
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  4* and resource_name = 'SESSIONS_PER_USER'
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">LIMIT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SQL> select profile
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  2  from dba_users
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  3  where username = 'SAM';
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PROFILE
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SVRMGR> shutdown normal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Database closed.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Database dismounted.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ORACLE instance shut down.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SVRMGR> connect internal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Connected to an idle instance.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ORACLE instance started.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Total System Global Area      34122296 bytes
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38992 bytes
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31797736 bytes
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Database Buffers              
2252800 bytes
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Buffers                     

32768 bytes
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Database mounted.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SVRMGR> select osuser, username
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">     2> from v$session;  
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">OSUSER         
USERNAME                      

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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SVRMGR> select osuser, username from v$session;
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">14 rows selected.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">  Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 07:57:31 CDT

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