> IBM zSeries platform > Oracle EE 10g > Suse 10 > While comparing ulimit parameters between a primary and a standby server, > I noticed that the pending signals (-i) parameter was vastly > different. Everything else is the same and I haven't been able to find ... > primary - 81,920 > standby - 3,072 On my RHEL 4 and 5 boxes, I checked Oracle process pending signals with this command: for i in `ps -ef | grep [L]OCAL | awk '{print $2}'`; do grep ^SigPnd /proc/$i/status; done and then change [L]OCAL to [o]ra_ for background processes. I admit all the databases are fairly idle right now. But I checked multiple times on multiple servers. I've never seen one single pending signal for any Oracle process. I would say it's extremely unlikely you would reach the limit of pending signals of 3 thousand. You can check it when your database is busy. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l