Originally posted by Axr2
recovery_parallelism has to do with instance recovery. It only comes into play *after* your archivelogs have been transferred to disk. Your TDP settings (or channel) allocation has no bearing on it. You should potentially still be able to leverage the advantages of this parameter.
Duh! I'm glad it's Friday. Now that I read the description of the parameter I see that it is for crash/instance recovery. I guess it doesn't hurt to have it set.

Ever use LOG_PARALLELISM?