Oracle 11g Release 2(11.2.0.1.0) client for x86-64 has a new bug(9496209). I was able to reproduce the issue after about 2-3 days of repeated execution.

With a Java module that uses the thick client(OCI) to connect through JDBC and initializes a C3P0 connection pool, the module would intermittently crash. Here’s an example of how to reproduce the problem. Of course, you would need C3P0 libraries in your environment.

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