I'm not aware of any whitepapers off-hand, but I hear there are some really good ASM books. I can speak to my personal experience. In adding multiple instances to a node (I don't know the limit, depends on load etc), I have seen the need to increase processes as well as shared_pool_size. This was on 10gR2, btw. Bradd Piontek "Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-class job under your direction." -- William Feather On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:30 AM, <TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm trying to find a best practice paper or info on dealing with ASM in RAC > environment and do I need to bump up some of the settings as we add more > databases to each node. > > thanks, joe > > _______________________________________ > Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional > Senior Consultant > Data Engineering and Administration > Nationwide Investments > > (Work) 614-677-1668 > (Cell) 614-312-6715 > > Interested in helping out your marriage? > Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" > Dec 11-13, 2009 here in Columbus. >