I have an SR open am still working with Oracle Support on getting an answer to the same question. Other related problems I'm seeing are: 1) Large amount of free memory in shared pool, even though cursors are getting flushed out of the shared pool very quickly 2) Large amount of memory allocated to "KGH: NO ACCESS" in shared pool I think the solution might be "don't use ASMM", but am waiting for an official response. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harvinder Singh Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:43 AM To: ORACLE-L Subject: Automatic Shared Memory question Hi, I am checking the Automatic Shared Memory feature and set the following 2 parameters in init.ora file and recreate the spfile and restarted the oracle: sga_max_size=943718400 sga_target=629145600 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l