Sheesh. You normally can get between 10 and 50 connections per pooled connection - so you seem to be looking in the order of several million concurrent connections across the cluster? On 13 Oct 2010 16:13, "Crisler, Jon" <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx> wrote: In my case, I am looking at a connection count of at least 5000, with an SGA of 70gb or higher, on each node of a 6 node cluster, with each node having 48 cpu’s. We have run into issues with MTS and will be using dedicated connections on the DB side but the numerous app servers have connection pooling. The database size will be about 6 TB to start. Preliminary testing on a small system already showed a performance gain when using hugepages, but the test was on SUSE Linux while we are using RedHat 5, so its not a 100% accurate comparision. This 6 node cluster will replicate to an identical cluster with DataGuard. *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Kevin Closson *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:56 AM *To:* Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 11g RedHat 5 and Hugepages Nothing wrong with this feedback because it includes information about how to do it right (e.g....