Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Rebooting a system using daemontools and Oracle

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Posted by Dirk Gomez on
As to what shutdown immediate|abort|transactional do, look here: http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a76956/start.htm#6370

And immediate may take a lot of time - depending on how long the longest rollback will take. Someone on the Oracle newsgroup posted that he once waited 6 hours.