Folks, I need some clarification on the roles of MMON and MMAN background processes in Oracle 10.2.0.x. As I understand it, MMAN (Memory Manager) is the process that actually manages the dynamic resizing in ASMM, where as MMON (Memory Monitor) process gathers some statistics that I am not very clear on. When I set the "_memory_management_tracing" initialization parameter to a value (7, 16, 31, 63), it creates a trace file for MMON which contains memory statistics information but no memory related information is written in the alert log file. Can someone please elaborate on the roles of MMAN versus MMON and how can one see what the MMAN process doing when it resizes memory. Thanks Amir -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l