On 01/10/2013 11:09 PM, Jorgensen, Finn wrote: > At my company on a Sun T5240 host which reports 128 CPU's due to extreme > hyperthreading, I had to restrict CPU_COUNT otherwise running utlrp.sql as > part of new database creation spawned so many parallel threads it brought the > server to its knees. > Hi Finn, you can manually adjust the degree of parallelism for utlrp: @@utlprp.sql X See ORA-04031 error when upgrading to 11.2.0.2 during utlrp.sql step [ID 1275067.1]. That said, for me, one of the first things to do after a fresh 11.2 install is adjust the max_parallel_server processes, the default seems too hight. Regards Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l