Yep that parameter caught my attention too. I just did a quick test and started database with this parameter set to true and false. No difference in ipcs -ma output was found....Could that be related to MTS configuration ? --romas On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Yong Huang > > <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Krishna, > > > > > >> on Solaris PGA uses ISM > > > > > > Wouldn't that cause PGA to be shared? > > Tanel Poder's presentation "Memory Management and Latching Improvements in > Oracle9i and 10g" mentions the parameter _use_ism_for_pga. It didn't > register in my mind when I read it some time ago. I don't have access to > Oracle on Solaris right now. Why does Oracle do this? It would be > interesting to see the effect. > > Yong Huang > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >