Doing some legwork/research for a presentation. Any people with good memories / funny stories much appreciated. Found this leftover from the first system I supported in production ... ( was running on hpux ). Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 7.3.2.1.0. System parameters with non-default values: Later some output shows this value for shared_pool_size ... I was thinking back and guessing that maybe we had a 30 mb shared pool but sure looks like this ( shared_pool_size 3500000 ) was running on 3+ mb ... wow ... was that even possible? Does anyone have any reliable memories of what common shared pool sizes were back then ( 7.3 days ? ). Thanks John