Peter writes: > On one of my servers I have two oracle.exe processes, one for each of the > Oracle instances on the server. Each shows a size of about 6.3 gb in task ... > restarts would seem to eliminate the possibility of a memory leak. The two > databases are in the 3-4 gb size range. A 6.3GB memory footprint for a 3-4GB DB?!??!? If the units of measure are correct, what are your pool sizes, both in use and as stated in the init.ora/spfile? Also, I've found that Sysinternals' Process Explorer (now an MS product) gives better insight than the default Task Mangler. Still free from sysinternals.com (will redirect to MS' site). Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l