Re: Limit on PROCESSES in init.ora

Dave Kennedy wrote:

> I am trying to raise the number of processes on an Oracle 8.1.7
> database instance to 400. I have shutdown the database, then edited
> init.ora changing processes to 400, and then attempted to start the
> database.
>
> I receive this error:
> ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
>
> And the Oracle instance will not start until I lower the number of
> processes in init.ora.
>
> Can anyone help me figure out what is going on?
>
> (Oracle is running on Solaris 7.)

Go back to your installation documentation and read the section on semaphores and shared memory.

You will need to alter your /etc/system file to correspond with the new number of processes.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 17:09:29 CDT