> Since its development, how about finding out if the entire > instance will shutdown if the MMON process is killed? Killing MMON doesn't crash instance. Before we migrated most our applications from the unstable Itanium boxes running 10.2.0.2, we periodically killed MMON to release memory. See //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/10-2008/msg00145.html Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l