Thanks to everyone with the Huge pages advice....we now have it enabled. I am now getting pressure from all sides to increase the SGA "because we have plenty of memory now" with huge pages. Triple the current SGA size....what are the ramifications of doing this? In 10G there were lots of easy ways to check buffer/pool sizes with hit ratios. Does anyone have some advice? I need solid evidence to back up what I say....just pointing to the ADDM report isn't what they want. We don't own Database Replay. I currently have the SGA allocated manually....I have not turned on ASMM yet (but it is on the table) and don't plan on using AMM due to known issues with huge pages. Currently on 11.2.0.3 with a planned upgrade to 12.1.0.2 within the year. thanks, -- April C. Sims http://aprilcsims.wordpress.com Twitter, LinkedIn Oracle Database 11g – Underground Advice for Database Administrators <http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Database-Underground-Advice-Administrators/dp/1849680000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272289339&sr=8-1#noop> https://www.packtpub.com/oracle-11g-database-implementations-guide/book OCP 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g DBA Southern Utah University aprilcsims@xxxxxxxxx