Server: AIX 5.1 Database: 9.2.0.4 We are noticing each connection to the database takes approximately 5 MB of OS memory. Our 8.1.7.4 databases take 3 MB of OS memory. Has anyone else noticed something similar? Did we miss something in the documentation. I found note 259983.1. Applied the workaround, and this brought the usage down to about 4MB per connection. workarea_size_policy = auto pga_aggregate_target = 292552704 We are calculating the shadow process size per note 123754.1 as follows: ps v <PID> (RSS - TRS) * 1024 Thanks, Rob Pegram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------