Hi, all, I believe many people are running oracle 9i on solaris platform. Does anyone noticed this message while starting oracle instance at solaris: "Wed Dec 15 21:00:06 2004 Oracle instance running on a system with low open file descriptor limit. Tune your system to increase this limit to avoid severe performance degradation. " According to metalink, os parameter "open files" (rlim_fd_max at solaris?) need to be tuned as formular: 2*db_files + controlfile+logfile ..., if my db_files=1000, then I have to set rlim_fd_max to near 2400. Without changing this parameter, will there really be some performance degradation? If I reduce the db_files to 100 or so, then no warning any more. Thanks. -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l