Do you know how I find out what that limit is? Thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Neyman [mailto:ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 1:57 PM > To: Sweetser, Joe; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Help with Windows error > > Probably, you are exceeding number of concurrent licensed connections to > WIN2000. > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sweetser, Joe > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:52 PM > To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Help with Windows error > > Oracle 8.1.7.4.1 > Windows 2000 SP4 > > Intermittent error that (so far) is only resolved with a server reboot. > Error manifests itself many ways but the most obvious are inability to > connect to the database and/or inability to log into the server itself. > If you do get logged in to the server...inability to start an > application; be it cmd or sqlplus. The error at that point is "Failed > to initialize application". No errors in alert.log and database comes > up fine after reboot. > > The only error I've found is in the listener.log and I can't figure what > the underlying Windows error truly means. I have googled and metalink'd > to no avail. > > 26-JUN-2006 10:23:18 * <snip> * establish * limsprod * 12500 > TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process > TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error > TNS-00530: Protocol adapter error > 32-bit Windows Error: 31: Too many links > > Can anyone shed some light on what "Too many links" means? Open files? > Network connections? Sockets? > > Thanks in advance, > -joe > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l