Hi Experts, Have a problem related to parallel query execution. I have a setup of Oracle 10g (10.2.0.3) on solaris 64 bit and on a 16 core CPU system. When I execute parallel hint in the query the following happens. Does not use PQ processes for the query: select /*+ parallel(bt,4) */ from big_table bt; Does use PQ processes for the query: select /*+ parallel(bt,16) */ from big_table bt; Please help me in understanding why this happens. -- Regards, Deepak Oracle DBA