Oracle: 10.2.0.4 Linux Redhat 5 2 node rac cluster 2 GBs streams pool in each cluster There isn't alot on the web about the streams pool. I see references to datapump and not having any streams pool set,but we have 2 GBs. We use streams. Does anyone know how the streams pool works? There has been discussion about flushing the shared pool. That is a bandaid for lack of bind variables... we have issues with that, but it wouldn't be in the streams pool even though the streams pool is part of the shared pool. Streams pool looks like a buffer for streams. Its used for passing data back and forth right? So since its a buffer to pass data back and forth, if you can't keep up you run out of memory. Unlike the Cache for the general DB data, pmon can't flush to disk because there is no place to put it. Is that a correct analysis of how the streams pool works? I can't find alot of details about this. Yeah I know we likely need more memory, but I am trying to understand more about how streams works and the streams pool.