oracle broken pipes

[timfox]

we are intermittently getting IOException "Broken pipe" from oracle, from our application, when trying to access connections from the db connection pool.

we are using 3.0.2

any ideas?

[davidjencks]

If Oracle times out connections idle for x minutes, you should set the jboss connection pool idletimeout parameter to about x/2 minutes.

Other than that I have no idea. Any usage pattern that seems to encourage this? Any other info from Oracle?