oracle.exe (SHAD) processes increasing exponentially
726648Oct 9 2009 — edited Jun 24 2011I am noticing this problem since a couple of days. The processes parameter has already been increased from 200 to 250. Even after a clean restart of the database, this process just grows and hits the processes mark. Currently the count(*) from v$process is 249. No one is logged in to the database (no user). This is a LDAP database. No new connections will now go through. Any help will be appreciated.
This is Oracle 10.1.0.4.2 database on Windows server 2003 32-bit.