Hi Krishna, > on Solaris PGA uses ISM Wouldn't that cause PGA to be shared? > 4. The formula you want to use > > Physical Memory > shmall > (shmmax = nr_hugepages) I think the shmmax part can be relaxed. It's just a mathematical limit anyway. Setting it to a very high number does no harm. Other points are excellent. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l