>>> >>> I know it shouldn't be larger than that, but I've seen >>>shared pool miscellaneous grow to values bigger than my >>>physical memory (on 9205) so I'm perfectly prepared to >>>accept an accounting error here. >>> >>>Unless v$sga is lying to me, the apparent value for ASM >>>extent pointer array is bigger than my SGA. well, since ASM is going to replace all industry volume managers and filesystems, we best get curious about this stuff. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l