Hi everybody: We have a HP-UX Itanium Server with 28Gb of memory, 4 cores, Oracle 11.1.0.7. it often hangs waiting for flushing shared pool, manually or automatically. Memory Target is 18Gb. the ASMM set the following parameters __db_cache_size=5368709120 __java_pool_size=67108864 __large_pool_size=67108864 __oracle_base='/prod01/app/oracle'#ORACLE_BASE set from environment __pga_aggregate_target=6710886400 __sga_target=12616466432 __shared_io_pool_size=0 __shared_pool_size=6912212992 __streams_pool_size=67108864 when the shared pool is full, sometimes we get that most processes wait for library cache: mutex X. It takes up to 2 hours to flush the shared pool and sometimes we have to kill the smon because the instances doesn't accept any conection to shutdown the instance. Has anybody had issues with flushing the shared pool? -- Alfonso Leon