True. The increase was only a temporary measure until the code was fixed. Arul On 10/21/05, Kennedy, Jim <jim_kennedy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > While increasing from 255 to 500 isn't a problem, it isn't the solution is > developers aren't closing cursors. It is just giving you a bigger pool to > piss in. Some applications open a cursor and reuse it. That is fine. It is > applications that open a cursor and leak them that is a problem. > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Arul Ramachandran > Sent: Fri 10/21/2005 6:05 PM > To: Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: increasing open_cursors from 300 to 3000 > > Hi Paula, > > In the past with Oracle8i, I've increased OPEN_CURSORS (for ORA-1000) > almost doubled from 255 to 500, without any negative side effects, as a > temporary fix when developers rolled out Java code that did not close > cursors. This helped us buy more time before we'd hit another ORA-1000, sort > of treating the symptom. > > Arul >