Is it good or bad to use all available (not used for other purposes, eg. shared pool or pga) RAM for buffer cache? I am talking about 32GB RAM range. Oracle is not in-memory database but anyway - memory access is faster than disk access. However I understand that the way(algorithms) Oracle uses RAM may have a practical turning point when adding more RAM will only slow down things. Therefor the question is: - is Oracle(9.2 version) better at utilizing RAM(say, 10-20GB) for buffer cache? - or is it it is better to let file system to utilize this RAM for file cache? - none of the above, stay with moderate RAM usage (few gigabytes for buffer cache) just because buffer cache hit ration is good(98-99%)? I would just like to point out that 1% of disk ("raw") access makes up a considerable response time, may be 50% or so. Thank you in advance, Laimis N. Fyrirvari/Disclaimer http://www.landsbanki.is/disclaimer -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l