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Not Getting the Requested Number of Worker Processes When Database Profile SESSION_PER_USER Limit is Set (Doc ID 1630039.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 07, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 10.2 to 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Database profile is used to set SESSION_PER_USER to 6. As a result you cannot have more than 6 sessions. If you try to open 7 sessions you get and ORA-02391 error.

This also causes that an SQL may not get the requested number of parallel processes.

Changes

 

Cause

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