Sessions
Sessions specifies the maximum number of sessions that can be created in the system. Because every login requires a session, this parameter effectively determines the maximum number of concurrent users in the system. You should always set this parameter explicitly to a value equivalent to your estimate of the maximum number of concurrent users, plus the number of background processes, plus approximately 10% for recursive sessions.
Oracle uses the default value of this parameter as its minimum. Values between 1 and the default do not trigger errors, but oracle ignores them and uses the default instead.
The default values of the enqueue_resources and transactions parameters are derived from sessions. Therefore, if you increase the value of sessions, you should consider whether to adjust the values of enqueue_resources and transactions as well. (Note that enqueue_resources is obsolete as of oracle database 10g release 2 (10.2).)
Default Value |
(1.5 * Processes) + 22 |