Eww. Sorry to hear that. Fortunately, Metalink seems to have the exact advice you need in article 116076.1 HTH! GL! Rich > I inherited 8.1.7.4 (was upgraded from 8.1.6.3) on Win2000 Adv. Server(was > upgraded from NT). [snip] > Getting ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 709132 > bytes (callheap,kllcqas:kllsltba). > How/where (besides windows task manager) can I lookup how much memory is > being used at the time this error occurs? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l