title: Oracle 11g memory leak in Win 2008?
body: <p>So we have an instance of Oracle 11g running off a Win 2008 R2 server.  Although I know Oracle and Microsoft might not get along too well, it gets to the point where Oracle is eating up about 50% of the ram on the box, and never releases it, so from time to time, I bounce the service just to flush it out.  I've been trying to find whether or not there's an alternative to releasing this memory somehow without having to bounce the service, but so far no luck.  </p>
  
  <p>Has anyone else encountered this and found a way to flush that memory through alternative means?   Any input would be appreciated!</p>
  
  <p>Here are the current allocations from spfile / parameters on this instance... If you have any suggested setup based on available memory, just let me know what you need and I can provide additional information. Thanks so much for your input on this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>archive_lag_target                   integer  0
  db_flashback_retention_target        integer  1440
  fast_start_io_target                 integer  0
  fast_start_mttr_target               integer  0
  memory_max_target                    integer  10368319488
  memory_target                        integer  10368319488
  parallel_servers_target              integer  64
  pga_aggregate_target                 integer  0
  sga_target                           integer  0
  </code></pre>