FAST_START_PARALLEL_ROLLBACK specifies the degree of parallelism used when recovering terminated transactions. Terminated transactions are transactions that are active before a system failure. If a system fails when there are uncommitted parallel DML or DDL transactions, then you can speed up transaction recovery during startup by using this parameter. Values: FALSE : Parallel rollback is disabled LOW : Limits the maximum degree of parallelism to 2 * CPU_COUNT HIGH : Limits the maximum degree of parallelism to 4 * CPU_COUNT If you change the value of this parameter, then transaction recovery will be stopped and restarted with the new implied degree of parallelism.