Re: Oracle Licenses vs Processes

Richard Stanton schrieb:
> Hello
>
> I have 'inherited' an oracle 8.05 database running on nt and have a
> question regarding processes and licenses.
>
> The database is accessed mainly through an application, but also
> serves some asp pages. We are licensed for 40 concurrent users.
>
> Occasionally we get a situation where you try and connect to the
> database and you get an error message stating that "maximum number of
> processes (100) exceeded".
>
> What processes is this referring to and how is it related to connected
> sessions? If it's just a default database setting, is it something I
> could change?
>
> thanks in advance for your help
>
> Richard

Never worked with 8.0.5, but for 8i, there is a initialization parameter "processes"

Check this parameter and increase if necessary!

HTH!
Rainer Herbst

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