Chris writes: > With windows you can force the memory back to the system - not sure why it > doesn't do this automatically as Linux appears to do. > > There's a few tools that I have used for this *however* I'm not sure it > would work in the scenario you are describing. Interesting! I may have to check those out! This particular system is constrained to 32-bit until we can upgrade, which requires a rewrite of our ETL scripts. I've read that 64-bit versions of Winders still suffers from the same PTE issues, but that it's not noticeable due to the vast increase in pool size for 64-bit. > Regarding apps, I thought that is what we were talking about :) Any app can have leaky code (except the ones *I* write, of course), so I was looking at this in how the OS can deal with it. If those tools can help, that could go a long way in keeping our apps available until upgrade. Thanks Chris! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l