I would not call it poorly written: keep in mind that it runs on a RAC cluster with a combined 576 cpu's, so it might give you some idea of the size :) -----Original Message----- From: Greg Rahn [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:14 PM To: Crisler, Jon Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RE: 11g RedHat 5 and Hugepages There may be issues with MTS but no where near the issues of having an application that needs 75k db connections. This must be one poorly written application. I can't imagine how much CPU the dispatchers would burn for that many connections. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Possibly- there are issues with MTS and they want enough headroom so that > they can run without MTS and possibly connection pooling tuned very > conservatively on the app host side. On the current, undersized > configuration, they have already seen 75,000 connections at peak periods. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l