I have seen this problem before. I had an instances with processes set to 1000, and parallel_max_servers defaulted to 985. I am not sure how I was supposed to put enough users on. I manually set the number down to something more reasonable (256 I think). On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:41 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You got it, I always set 2 to 4 as well but never more than 4 so when this > guy came to me with the 10xCPU number because he got it from oracle > documentation I was like who earth set to 10xCPU and therefore my post. > > The funny thing is while researching this in MOS i saw another note which > suggests 10xCPU > > Thanks > > -- > LSC > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l