I would definitely go with what support says. But their official doc says the out of box parameters are fine.... Sent from my iPhone On Nov 14, 2012, at 6:09 PM, Manmohan Jalsingh <mjalsingh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I am getting "ORA-04031: unable to allocate 3896 bytes of shared" > errors in the asm instance of a cluster node. > Currently the SGA_MAX_SIZE is set to default value (400 MB) and there > are about a dozen databases on the server. > I am looking for some advice on the parameter. Support indicated 1GB > is a good start. > > The grid/asm version is 11.2.0.3. > > Thanks & Regards > Man mohan > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l