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Hai guys,
I am facing some problem with my database Oracle 8.1.7 running on windows 2000 service pack 2 .The server has Physical Memory of 2 Gb Ram . Now to the problem, new connections to the database are someties rejected giving the following error
TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process
the listener log file gives the following error
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TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process
TNS-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded
32-bit Windows Error: 8: Exec format error
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this is happening randomly and at time of high CPU activity. I went through some oracle docs and it said that it could be due to lack of resources or memory .I guess that new session could not be started by the listener. Task manager shows that around 1.9 gb of ram is being used.
Around 180 sessions access the database through out. sharedpool is set to 385 MB Buffer cache is 400 Mb Sort_area_size is set to 2 Mb.
Processes parameter is set to 220.
Thanks in advance
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