You should look for pga/uga values at session level (v$sesstat), the values in v$systat for instance level are meaning less accodring to the documentation (see database statistics descriptions in E-14 Oracle Database Reference guide, Oracle10gR2). Regards, Joze ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DBA Deepak Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 8:38 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: PGA size discrepancy Hi All, I executed the following statements. SQL> select * from v$version; BANNER ---------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production CORE 10.2.0.1.0 Production TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production SQL> select name,VALUE/(1024*1024) MB from v$sysstat 2 where name like '%pga%'; NAME MB ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- session pga memory 18184.7367 session pga memory max 19962.1279 SQL> sho parameter pga NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ pga_aggregate_target big integer 24M One query: > The session pga memory & session pga memory max values are looking unreal as > we do not have this much amount of Physical memory. And the > pga_aggregate_target is 24M only. What might be the issue? -- Regards, Deepak Oracle DBA