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. 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