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ORA-00020 and ASM (Doc ID 458527.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 13, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 10.2.0.4 to 12.2.0.1 [Release 10.2 to 12.2]
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 to 12.2.0.1 [Release 10.1 to 12.2]
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

An ASM instance complains of

     ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (n) exceeded

Cause

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