Reposting.. due to overquote. Apologies for multiple emails, if the first one make it to the list.. > Douglas > > Can you please print stack trace of the trace file ? or send me first 100 > lines of trace file? > Also, what is your sga_target is set to? Do you use ASMM? What is your > shared_pool_size? > There are many reasons for ORA-4031 errors and easier to debug if we can > get full ORA-4031 error and stack from the trace files etc. > > cheers > Riyaj > > Douglas Cowles wrote: > >> >> The errors to appear to be citing the "shared pool" - which raises the >> question, doesn't flushing the shared pool defragment the shared pool? >> >> >>