Brandon Remember that not only you need a slightly bigger SGA, but that most binaries and libraries are larger as well... Below, as example, the size of the binary "oracle" for different releases on one of our test systems: oracle@ttchp02:/u00/app/oracle/ [rdbms1020] ls -l /u00/app/oracle/product/*/bin/oracle | cut -c 38- 38525112 Jun 27 2004 /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/oracle 59626624 Apr 26 2002 /u00/app/oracle/product/9.0.1/bin/oracle 75685016 Jan 17 2003 /u00/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/oracle 114790832 Sep 1 2004 /u00/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/bin/oracle 131503552 Nov 4 09:54 /u00/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin/oracle Regards, Chris New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ www.trivadis.com Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) Français: Genève (17-Nov) Deutsch: Zürich (29-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) >-----Original Message----- >From: Allen, Brandon [mailto:Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: 16 November 2005 21:02 >To: Christian Antognini >Subject: RE: 10gR2 Memory Requirements > >Thanks Christian, I was thinking the same thing so I opened a TAR to ask if >these figures are for >the duration of the upgrade only, or if they are actually required for normal >database operation. >No response yet . . . -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l