In our server/client-setup we’re experiencing some weird behaviour. The client is a C/C++-application which uses OCI to connect to an Oracle server (using the OTL library).
Every now and then the DB server dies in a way (yes this is the core issue, but from application-side we’re unable to solve it but have to deal with it anyway), that the machine does not respond anymore to new requests/connections but the existing ones, like the Oracle-connections, do not drop or time out. Queries sent to the DB just never return successfully anymore.
What possibilities (if any) are provided by Oracle to detect these stalled connections from the client-application side and recover in a more or less safe way?
This is a bug in Oracle ( or call it a feature ) till 11.1.0.6 and they said the patch on Oracle 11g release 1 ( patch 11.1.0.7 ) which has the fix. Need to see that.
If it happens you will have to cancel ( kill ) the thread performing this action.
Not good approach though