Hi Purav, You should also check for KGH: NO ACCESS when you use ASMM you can check metalink note below for more details Common Cause for ORA-4031 in 10gR2, Excess "KGH: NO ACCESS" Memory Allocation [Video] [ID 801787.1] Regards Joshua https://twitter.com/joshuasingham On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Purav Chovatia <puravc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > We have a 10205 database on Solaris SPARC with ASMM enabled and sga_target > & sga_max_size = 4G. What we observe is that shared_pool has grown from > 700MB to 1.6GB in last 3 months whereas buffer cache has shrunk from 3.3G > to 2.5G. This inspite of the database having to do physical reads i.e some > of the hot objects not fitting in the buffer cache. > What could be the reason? > How do I find what is the breakup of the so big shared pool? (There are no > bind variable issues) > > Thanks. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l