So do the shared_pool_size, as some note says. But I haven't seen you need to double the sort_area_size anywhere. Interesting. Wondering how to verify it.As sort seems more like data buffer other than shared pool, which is 32/64bit related? Thanks. On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:45:05 -0400, Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gudmundur, > > I read (from a good, known source) that you may want to double your > sort_area_size as the pointers will take up twice as much space in > memory. > > I haven't tested this out myself, will do so after I get an AMD 64 laptop. > > Paul > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:03:44 +0000, Gudmundur Josepsson <gbj@xxxxxxxx> wrot= > e: > > Hi, > >=20 > > Are there any known 'gotchas' for moving from 32-bit Oracle to 64-bit > > on Solaris 5.8? (Yes, we will RTFM :-) > >=20 > > Thanks, > > Gudmundur > >=20 > > =DEessi p=F3stur var sendur me=F0 vefp=F3sti mi, http://www.mi.is > >=20 > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l