The situation: A critical business process or even an internal Oracle process does not find room in the shared poolThe Oracle solution: Kill the critical business process or the internal Oracle process Why not give the customer a choice of allowing processes to operate in degraded mode? re: if it degraded all other ongoing processes, would this be a good thing or bad thing? How would permitting a private SQL area (for use in degraded mode) degrade other ongoing processes? Iggy Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:51:43 -0600 From: fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: buffer advisor (has become: should there be a private sql area?) On 12/09/2014 12:45 PM, Iggy Fernandez wrote: Why is "operate in degraded mode" such a bad thing? If taken in isolation, it might not be a bad thing. Perhaps even a good thing. In a multi-process/task/user system, if it degraded all other ongoing processes, would this be a good thing or bad thing? /Hans