Hi fellows, I've oracle 10g (10.2.0.4) running at Linux with partitioning option. The users were running pipelines while I was informed that the they got crashed. When I checked the alert log file, I could see the following error messages: *Wed Apr 15 14:03:54 2009 Process P003 died, see its trace file Wed Apr 15 14:03:55 2009 Process P004 died, see its trace file Wed Apr 15 14:03:56 2009 Process P003 died, see its trace file Process P003 died, see its trace file Process P003 died, see its trace file Process P003 died, see its trace file Wed Apr 15 14:04:02 2009 Process P005 died, see its trace file Process P005 died, see its trace file *Now, the wierd thing is, I really dont see anything in the trace file that could point anything that could have caused this. I checked my parameters and found that the PROCESSES parameter was set to a very low value (i.e.150). Now I've increased it to 400 but this is just a shot in dark. I'm totally unsure if this could be the reason. Can anyone please help me? Its quite urgent. Thanks, Khan.