Oracle 12: Windows clients experience timeout after 30 mins of inactivity
Our databases are on HP-UX Itanium (64-bit)
We have upgraded one database from 11g to 12c using dbua (fully automated) and another one manually.
Windows clients that connect to either of the 2 upgraded databases experience timeouts after about 30 minutes.
notes:
- the SAME clients do not experience the timeouts when connecting to 11g databases.
- the timeouts occur whether the windows clients get their initial connection thought the 11g or the 12c listener.
- The timeout symptoms include; ORA-03113 'end-of-file on communication channel', IO Error: Socket read timed out, 'Closed connection: Vendor code 17008' (or vendor code 17002)
- I have noted that the server-side shadow task is still running!! and is still visible in v$session...