Dave, > Anyone have a good way of dealing with this? Should I create user metric to > pull in "vmstat" buff and cache values, used to subtract from used memory to > get a more real picture? Seems like a dumb fix but I can't come up with any > other way. I know managment won't understand that just because memory shows > as 99% used all the time its really not. You did not mention the OS platform, but I am guessing *nix. In that case, configure sar (if not already configured) - you will then not need to poll from vmstat. Depending on your OS, sar will be able to provide this information. -- John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkanagaraj http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com (Sorry - not an Oracle blog!) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l