You are right. There IS a point where too much memory hinders performance. In my experience (and I get to run GLANCE on a lot of boxes) starvation is the general rule rather than having your cup runneth over, again YMMY.) Paul Courry >I would add one caution with the statement about adding memory. As a > >general rule I agree that adding memory is a good thing, but the old > >addage of "too much of a good thing is bad" is true here as well. Based > >on how your system is used there is a point that adding memory will slow > >interactive user performance. We found this when doing performance > >testing at HP's Capacity Planning Center. It seems the more memory that > >batch processing has to place with the more it dominates the system and > >the priority of the user's versus batch has very little to do with who > >gets cpu time. It become a matter of who has resource locked (in use) > >when a user needs that resource. > > > >I can not give you any idea how much memory is too much. It all depends > >on your system utilization. But when you hit that magic spot you will > >know what it is. > >