Hi all, The following is my query result against v$pgastat view. PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET is set to 1G. According to Oracle' documentation, Oracle should attempts to keep the amount of private memory below the PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET specified. But from the following it looks Oracle allocated 1.2G PGA memory, and the maximum PGA allocated is 1.3GB which is far above 1G (PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET), I am confused. Could anyone share some light on this? aggregate PGA target parameter 1,073,741,824.00 bytes aggregate PGA auto target 85,053,440.00 bytes global memory bound 107,366,400.00 bytes total PGA inuse 984,952,832.00 bytes total PGA allocated 1,259,997,184.00 bytes maximum PGA allocated 1,347,652,608.00 bytes Thanks, Lu