Here's the URL to the SunSolve article, which was originally provided to me by Sten Rognes. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=3D1-9-72952-1 -Mark I previously said:=20 > Scott, >=20 > I ran into a LARGE brick wall, when trying to set sga_max_size, > (which implicitly enables DISM), but I was on Solaris 8. Don't > even think about it on Solaris 8. On solaris 9, if you're on a=20 > suitably recent version (I *think* it's April 2004 or later), > then you should be fine. Solaris 8 and early versions of=20 > Solaris 9 are *bad news*, but recent Solaris 9 is ok. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l