Hi Tanel and all! > If you google for KGH NO ACCESS, you'll see that it's just how ASMM works :) True, but if you search in Metalink you'll see that this is not how ASMM should work. ;-) ML Note 801787.1 states that "...it is normal to periodically see "KGH: NO ACCESS" allocations up to about 64M". I personally set up Nagios checks for "KGH: NO ACCESS" sizes at 128 MB. Oracle considers anything above 64M a bug, due to too frequent resize operations between the buffer cache and the shared pool. To verify this, they give this query: select START_TIME, component, oper_type, oper_mode, initial_size/1024/1024 "INITIAL", FINAL_SIZE/1024/1024 "FINAL", END_TIME from v$sga_resize_ops where component in ('DEFAULT buffer cache', 'shared pool') and status = 'COMPLETE' order by start_time, component; My personal feeling and believe is that the rising allocations for this pool comes from dead, unusuable memory in there. I have seen this on 32 bit system where KGH NA was getting higher and higher over time and we ultimatley ran into ORA-04031 errors. I also have a 64 bit machine at hands with SGA_TARGET set to 5GB where buffer cache is around 2 GB and KGH NA is at 1.5GB and V$DB_CACHE_ADVICE states that the instance could use another 1 GB of memory. This is after three month uptime, but V$DB_CACHE_ADVICE only asks for more memory after KGH NA gots higher and higher. For me, this is a memory leak, but I can't proove it. Unfortunetly I miss the skills to dump the shared pool and inspect the bits one by one. :-) All this is on 10.2. While there are similar bugs availabel in ML for 11.*, I've never seen them personally. Cheers, Marcus > http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2009/09/09/kgh-no-access-allocations-in-vsgastat-buffer-cache-within-shared-pool/ > It's the mixed granules where buffer cache is placed within shared pool > (yes, I just did say that!). > So, that 5 GB is buffer cache. Your shared pool has been big as probably > during some time there was more shared pool loading activity than physical > IO activity and the ASMM manager decided to increase the shared pool. Once > more buffer cache was needed, it could not de-allocate complete granules > anymore and just made them "composite granules" > > -- > Tanel Poder > Expert Oracle Exadata book: > http://www.apress.com/9781430233923 > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:15 AM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would say your "KGH: NO ACCESS" is excessivily large. >> This component refers to granules that are in transit (being reassigned >> from the shared pool to the buffer cache and vice-versa) >> >> There are some bugs know to this. Check following MOS notes: >> >> How To Prevent The Growth Of The Component 'KGH: NO ACCESS' In The Shared >> Pool When ASMM Is Enabled [ID 451960.1] >> Common Cause for ORA-4031 in 10gR2, Excess "KGH: NO ACCESS" Memory >> Allocation [Video] [ID 801787.1] >> >> Also you can check if the sga components are frequently resizing: >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l