Long delays to get JDBC connection.

Question

My application uses Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle JDBC Driver.
I am getting log delays to get a new connection after the application is run for 2-3 hours. There is no specific time intraval as such. The problem goes off after 10-15 mts.
Anybody experience such problems?
Thanks
Gens

Answer 1

Debugging ur problem u might come across that u r not closing the connection after u have finished ur work with the connection , so the connection remains INACTIVE till oracle removes all these type of connection from the connection instances.
to find the no of connections on the oracle database
log on as system or any user having dba grants
select MACHINE,LOGON_TIME,USERNAME from v$session where USERNAME = 'USERNAME';
the quoted USERNAME should be the username u r connecting to oracle. for the above u will come to know the no of connections open. u can configure oracle to close INACTIVE connection imeediately ot close conection made in Java immediately after finishing ur work in them. if u r using a connection pool such a thing is not neccessary as a closed connection is returned back to the pool. however connections made in java have to be closed explicitly.
good luck