I just presented at Hotsos three approaches to shared pool monitoring can send to you. Looks like you probably want 4 fb shared pool on each node or more at minimum not uncommon 11g me not a big fan of all the auto dynamic stuff Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:45 AM, "Uzzell, Stephan" <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We recently had an issue with an undersized shared pool. We’ve increase the > size of the shared pool and think this should be resolved. Our customer, > however, is freaking out and wants to monitor this. > > I’ve been looking at v$sgastat hoping this would provide the information, but > I don’t quite understand how the view works. Testing against 11.2.0.3.7 on > OEL6x64. > > Shared_pool_size is set at 256MB for each instance in this RAC. Yet when I > try to sum up either the free memory value or the non-free values, I get > results far larger than that: > > SQL> select > 2 type > 3 , round( sum( bytes /1024 /1024 ) ) MB > 4 from > 5 ( > 6 select > 7 case when name = 'free memory' then 'FREE' else 'USED' > end type > 8 , bytes > 9 from > 10 v$sgastat > 11 where > 12 pool = 'shared pool' > 13 ) > 14 group by > 15 type > 16 / > > TYPE MB > ---- ---------- > USED 3760 > FREE 1744 > > Am I completely misunderstanding how this is supposed to work? Is there some > way to monitor shared pool usage? > > Stephan Uzzell >