RE: Oracle on NT/2000 Service shutdown

As a side note - I have noticed with 8.1.7 on Win2K that sometimes the service literally shuts down as quick as the listener service! Never saw this happen until 8.1.7 (8.1.6 still took about 20 seconds). Has anybody else noticed this?

Mark

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Daiminger
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:55
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Hi!

I found something interesting on the Windows 2000 FAQ site:

Q. How can I increase the time that services have to shut down?

1. By default, the OS allows services 20 seconds to stop before it forcefully halts them. For services that have a large amount of information in memory (e.g., Internet Security and Acceleration--ISA--Server 2000), 20 seconds might not be enough time. To increase the time the system allows, perform the following steps:
2. Start regedit.exe.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control.
4. Double-click WaitToKillServiceTimeout.
5. Set this value to the desired wait time in milliseconds--60000 is 1 minute.
6. Click OK.
7. Close regedit.
8. Reboot the machine.

Note that this value applies to ALL services, so setting it to a longer interval might slow your computer's shut down: if a service doesn't shut down correctly, it will have a longer time before the OS halts it.

This is certainly useful for all of us who use Oracle on Windows.

hth,
Helmut

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