Please stay on the list... readded... Remy Pinsonnault wrote at 2004-10-4 14:39 -0400:

What do you mean had died?

Oracle is quite a flexible system. We used it in a setup that each connection created a new Oracle server process. When I wrote "had died", I meant the the process responsible for one session died (going out of existence, usually due to a SIGSEGV). -- Dieter