I am attempting to use automatic shared memory management in oracle 10G, but having set the sga_target value and attempted to bounce the database I get the error ORA-00093: _shared_pool_reserved_min_alloc must be between 4000 and 0 when I try to startup If I try to set this value, it then says the parameter is obsolete!. Anyone know how to get around this? John -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l