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Large amount of ORA-00020 errors in alert.log (Doc ID 2926723.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Net Services - Version 19.3.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

1. In Alert.log, there are below outputs:

2022-10-11T10:18:06.030494+09:00
ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (150) exceeded
ORA-20 errors will not be written to the alert log for
the next minute. Please look at trace files to see all
the ORA-20 errors.

2. In the output of lsntctl services, some handlers is refused.

$ lsnrctl services

...

Instance "Sample Instance", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
    Handler(s):
      "DEDICATED" established:150 refused:100 state:ready

Changes

 

 

Cause

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