Hi, I've an Oracle RAC Database 10.2.0.4 using ASM on AIX 6.1, my server got 64GB RAM , And Oracle is using just 20GB for the SGA and another 10GB for the 1000 user connections, My question is the following , I'm seeing the memory on the server at 99.3% occupied I know this is because of the maxperm% and minperm% parameters , But because I've got a load storm, several connection to Oracle (about a 800 connection) the server started swapping and did a reboot because the CRS didn't have cpu to schedule the heartbeat, So my question is why does AIX do swapping when I have like 32gb of RAM on the filesystem cache ? The other question is does anyone have recommended kernel parameter's (maxperm% , minperm% , etc) for this kind of configuration ? because Oracle documentation and metalink are quite different in terms of recommendation's .. Thanks and Regards, Gil