I used to configure AMM assigning appropiate values to sga_target and pga_aggregate_target but nearly all my dbs have more memory assigned to shared_pool than buffer_cache. v$sgainfo; NAME BYTES RES -------------------------------- ---------- --- Buffer Cache Size 2751463424 Yes Shared Pool Size 3238002688 Yes Maximum SGA Size 6263357440 No Free SGA Memory Available 0 I can´t solve the possible problems with bind variables, etc. What are you doing in this situation? manual MM? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l