Just finished dealing with “Hard Limit: maximum user processes” error on Open Solaris 10 while installing 11gR2: Oracle Metalink was useless — total waste of time — I hate that site now, it’s gone completely into the crapper. SOLUTION (thanks to David D’Acquisto advice): 1) edit /etc/system as follows: set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=12025908428 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10 [...]