Oracle-L: ora-00020 : Max number of processes exceeded.

From: Nuala Cullen <ncullen_at_catlogic.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 03:44:37 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005A3069.20030527034437@fatcity.com>

Hi All,

We had an ORA-00020 error this morning - where the users could not log into the system.
As a quick fix I shutdown the database and reset the processes = 300 in the init.ora and restarted the database.

After reading through the archive though I have a few questions

Is the number of processes = the number of sessions? Or are the process children of the sessions?
If the status of a session in the v$session is = INACTIVE are they still seen as an active process?
One of the fixes recommend in the archives was to set the sqlnet.expire_time = 30 but the email also said that this did not work. Does it work?

We're running 8.1.7.4 on Windows2000 and there are about 60 users on the system.

Thanks,

Nuala Cullen
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