I think you need to patch to the latest 9.2.0.4 level of Oracle. Earlier versions of 9 had did not correctly manage the SGA. We round and round with the 4031 until Oracle finally, at L-O-N-G last, recognized there was a problem and fixed it. > -----Original Message----- > > We have upgraded our databases from 8174 to 9203. > > We have started encountering ORA-04031's on processes that > are using MTS. Once we switch that process to use a > dedicated connection then the problem goes away. This > problem did not occur when we were using 8174. > > For 8174, the shared pool was 100M. Large pool = 0. reserved is 10%. > For 9203, the shared pool was doubled to 200M. Large pool = > 0. reserved is 10%. > > Any thoughts?? Are we killing ourselves by doubling the > shared pool?? Does everyone else set their large pool to zero??? > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------