Completely in agreement. Thanks, Kevin. Cheers Nuno On Wed Oct 13 22:56 , Kevin Closson sent: >Nothing wrong with this feedback because it includes information about how to >do it right (e.g., pooled connections). But therein lies my point. Take you 1GB SGA and attach a couple hundred dedicated connection and you'll wish you'd have either a) used huge pages or b) reduced your dedicated connection count. I wrote: > >"Any system with large connection count is not going to be able to afford the wasted page table memory." > >So, while this is a good follow up it isn't disagreeing at all with what I am >said. > >Oh, by the way, why on earth would anyone still be using a 32-bit OS? That is a larger question. > >In summary, if you don't like the size of the page tables do something about >it. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l