Just a general query in case someone has encountered similar pattern. My application is falling over under stress and it turns out, it is creating a large number of DB connections outside the configured connection pool. i.e. the connections in the pool remains within the default 5, but the number of active physical DB connections grows enormously large. I wasn't able to trace back the code from which these connections are created.

Does anyone know of specific Hibernate settings that may create connections outside the weblogic connection pool?

What database are you using ?

Almost sounds as if you have hibernate configured not to use a datasource.

I am connecting to Oracle 9i, using Hibernate 2.1.

[quote="woofmain"][quote="Paul Newport"]What database are you using ?[/quote]

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[quote="Paul Newport]Almost sounds as if you have hibernate configured not to use a datasource.[/quote]

Datasource is configured and it is using some of the connections in the connection pool. However, what baffles me are the huge number of JDBC connections that are being created outside the pool. Is there any settings in Hibernate that causes it to open up new connections outside the configured pool?