Hello all, I have a proliant server with 4 GB RAM and a 3GHz processor. I am using suse 9.2 professional and installing oracle 9i on it. But when a look at free results just after booting the server with no larg program running: babao:~ # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4042056 4024008 18048 0 4920 35636 -/+ buffers/cache: 3983452 58604 Swap: 2104472 6068 2098404 almost all memory is allocated. I have just updated the system and it didn't change. I noticed that when I start a program like oracles dbca (assistent to create database) the machine almost dies running like a slower than my workstation. I also had a problem installing suse 9.2. It didn't started with 4GB of ram. I reduced to 2GB and the installation went fine. After a online update I could install the rest of the RAM. but now I noticed this problem and the machine is too sloow for a server. thanks for your attention and any help. -- Att., Flávio Fonseca Equipe Divisão de Redes (DR) Diretoria de Processamento de Dados (DirPD) Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU)