When the Automation Engine is accessing variables on an Oracle platform, it can cause a WP crash which will show as a loss of connection to the DB and a Signal Fault:
20160420/051833.512 - Signal 11 (SEGV) at 0x53b7000 with code 1
20160420/051833.512 - U00009907 Memory dump 'Parameter List ' (Address='0x7fff7aed84b0', Length='1296')
20160420/051833.512 - U00009907 Memory dump 'Input Memory' (Address='0x7fecac625010', Length='2760')
20160420/051833.512 - U00009907 Memory dump 'Local Memory' (Address='0x7feca52e5010', Length='4137496')
20160420/071348.709 - U00029108 UCUDB: SQL_ERROR Database handles DB-HENV: 18149f0 DB-HDBC: 1c71158
20160420/071348.709 - U00003591 UCUDB - DB error info: OPC: 'OCIStmtExecute' Return code: 'ERROR'
20160420/071348.709 - U00003592 UCUDB - Status: '' Native error: '3114' Msg: 'ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE'
20160420/071348.709 - U00003536 UCUDB: FATAL DATA BASE ERROR: Re-connection will be attempted in 10 seconds.
20160420/071348.709 - U00003537 UCUDB - RECONNECT: DB call 'OCITransRollback': Return code: '-1'.
20160420/071348.709 - U00003590 UCUDB - DB error: 'OCITransRollback', 'ERROR ', '', 'ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE'
20160420/071348.709 - U00003592 UCUDB - Status: '' Native error: '3114' Msg: 'ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE'
20160420/071348.784 - U00003538 UCUDB: Re-connection to database successful. Processing will continue.