I am re-sending this as the first time it did not go thru. Hopefully it does not get posted double. Oracle on Linux I am using Oracle 9i on Linux. I noticed that when I shut down all of the Oracle instances that a large chunk of memory is still allocated to it. When I restart Oracle it does reuse this memory, so not a big loss. The only way I know to free up this memory again is via a restart. I do not have a good reason for wanting this memory freed up, I just hate programs that will not release the resources on exit. Oracle told me that is just the way it is. I was wondering if any one had some insights to this, or a way to force the memory to be freed. Where this does become a big pain is if you are working on creating a new database, and you keep deleting and recreating it. The memory is not reused in this case, and if it is a big database you have to reboot often. I am testing some scripts to auto create and remove a database, and will do this nightly. If I do not find a way to release this memory I will be forced to reboot my dev box nightly. Jeff Strain Database Administrator LDS Business College (801) 524-8189 jstrain@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
