Thanks Perrin, for your valuable inputs.

I tried it from the command-line. The disconnect was
almost instantaneous. The TCP connection to the Oracle
server moved from 'ESTABLISHED' to 'TIME_WAIT' state as
soon as $dbh->disconnect was called.

So am facing this problem after mod_perl integration with
my snip below. <this same snip works well on command-line>.
I think mod_perl is not letting the database connection to
be torn down!! I am not using Apache DBI though, so
persistent connection concept can be ruled out.

Any more clues that I may want to take a look at?

Here's my Perl snip for reference:

use DBI;
my $dbh = 0;

sub connect_db {
   if (defined $dbh) {
        eval {
            $dbh->ping;
        };
        if (!$@) {
            #success return preserver database handle
            return $dbh;
        }
    }
      #ok, create a new database handle
        my $retry_count = 5;
        while ((!$dbh) && ($retry_count > 0)) {
                $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:linuxdb3','scott', 'ti
+ger');
                $retry_count -= 1;
                sleep(1);
        }

        if (!$dbh) {
            # Database connection failed
            return 0;
        }
         # Database connection OK
        return $dbh;
}

sub disconnect_db {
    if (defined $dbh) {
        eval {
            $dbh->ping;
        };
        if ($@) {
            # Database handle invalid as ping failed
            return 0;
        }
    }
            # Disconnect Database connection
        $dbh->disconnect;
        return 1;
}
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Thanks,

Vivek AN

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