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ORA-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded [message #6236]

Fri, 04 April 2003 23:42

ram
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Registered: November 2000

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when i try to login to sqlplus i get this error message
ORA-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded

how do i rectify this

thank in advance
ram

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Re: ORA-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded [message #6237 is a reply to message #6236]

Sat, 05 April 2003 01:29

Barbara Boehmer
Messages: 9105
Registered: November 2002
Location: California, USA

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From the Oracle on-line documentation (note: ORA-12540 is the same as TNS-12540):

"TNS-12540 TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded
Cause: Too many TNS connections open simultaneously.
Action: Wait for connections to close and retry."

Explanation of possible cause, found on a newsgroup, quoting metalink:

"The previous SQL*Plus session terminated abnormally which left a shadow process which was not properly cleaned up. If more than 3 of these shadow processes have been left, the next SQL*Plus session gets an error and is not able to connect."

Suggestions provided by Mahesh Rajendran to another user with the same problem:

"talk to your sysAdmin about increasing the values of
max_nprocs
maxusers
if these parameters are not explicitly defined ( most unix installations dont) ask him to use sysconf"

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