Sounds like a job for the resource manager! -- Tanel Poder Blog - http://blog.tanelpoder.com App - http://voic.ee On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Kevin Closson <ora_kclosson@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > Now I am working on addressing the "direct path read " event which is > coming from a standard EBS statement that contains 'parallel' clause > without any DOP which ends up invoking 144 parallel processes on three > RAC nodes (PARALLEL_MAX_SERVERS is set to 48 on each RAC node). > > ... Eeek...taming the beast as it were. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l