Check the value of instance initialization parameter PROCESSES. You may be reaching the limit; if so, increase the parameter and restart instance. Paul Baumgartel CREDIT SUISSE Information Technology DBA & Admin - NY, KIGA 1 11 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 USA Phone 212.538.1143 paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.credit-suisse.com -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of walid alkaakati Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 3:55 AM To: Ghassan Salem Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Listener is stopping ! Thanks Ghassan, I checked the listener.log it shows every thing normal. however when the problem happens i check tns-service in contral panel->services i find sid service is running however the listner service is not running so i restart the server and so on... is the listener becoming tired when i have many connectins ! the system adminstrator cannot find the meaning of the error " local agent reponse " in the system event , how shall i proceed in the investigation. Ghassan Salem <salem.ghassan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Walid, what do you mean by 'listener is stopping'? if you do a 'ps -ef|grep tns', you see no tns program running? if that is the case, look at the listener.log (in oh/network/log) to see if there is any error message there. rgds On 11/18/06, walid alkaakati < walid_alkaakati@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:walid_alkaakati@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: Hi list , I need your help on this urgent issue . Each day iam facing a problem , the applicaton is freezing and all my users (150) can not do any thing and you cannot do any new connections , some times this is accompanied by message (" can ot open dedicated server process...."), when i checked the services i found that listener is stopped automatically ! I wonder why it is stopping IS it that i have to add new listener or what ? Net work problems ? how i verify that it is a network problem ? the alert .log do not show anything , the window event shows " local agent error " where i shall start? Wating your help. BYE _____ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - $150,000 loan for $579 a <https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=b_rate150k&s=3968&p=5035&disc=y&vers=722> month. Intro-*Terms _____ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $510,000 Mortgage for $1,698/mo - Calculate <http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9134-16416&moid=4119> new house payment ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ==============================================================================