Has one seen, or does anyone have, data on what the average size of buffer cache is across Oracle databases? and/or average % of SGA allocated to buffer cache. One reason I ask, among several, is that pluggable databases save about 300-400MB per instance going from non-PDB to PDB. Thus Oracle claims they can go from 50 instances on a 20GB RAM host to 250 with PDB. First I'd be surprised at anyone running 50 Oracle instances on 20GB of RAM second I find it hard to fathom running 250 PDB on 20GB of RAM meaning that they'd all have a few MB of buffer cache available each at best. If PDB option is $17,500 it might be more cost effective to either add more memory to the machine or add more cache to the back end array serving I/O. Musing on configuration options ... - Kyle -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l