Don and Harvinder, I recommend you both take a look at v$db_cache_advice, your wait events (from statspack, AWR, or v$session_event and v$system_event) and even the old buffer hit ratio and then after taking all that into account, make an informed decision based on your findings rather than sizing your SGA/buffer cache based on how much RAM you have. The question asked is analagous to asking: "My car can go 180mph, how fast should I drive?" Regards, Brandon Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l