Nevermind, I think I answered my own question perusing Metalink. Note: ID 1511239.1 " There is no harm in setting this value large than your SGA requirements." Chris -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 1:03 PM To: andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Some more hugepages questions/thoughts Okay - this looks like exactly the approach I wanted to take. So at least I know I'm not out on the fringe somewhere. Let me ask this - for soft memlock and hard memlock, why set this above 80% of available memory? Does make more sense to limit these to no more than 80%? If not, why (out of curiousity)? Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l