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Background Process Terminated, e.g. ORA-471, Accompanied By Alert Log Warning 'Low Open File Descriptor Limit' (Doc ID 375517.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 29, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.5 to 21.9 [Release 9.2 to 21.0]
Information in this document applies to any platform.





Symptoms

You are running Oracle on a Unix/Linux based platform.

In the alert log the next error is reported without additional messages:

Changes

You have recently added datafiles to the database.

Cause

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