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Apply process fails to start with ORA-16081 (Doc ID 565527.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 04, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.3 to 11.1.0.6 [Release 10.2 to 11.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata 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

Start of Apply process fails with below error:

ORA-16081: insufficient number of processes for APPLY

Inspite of setting the processes parameter to a high value, we still get this error.

Cause

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