Oracle9i引入pga_aggregate_target，可以自动对PGA进行调整；Oracle10引入sga_target，可以自动对 SGA进行调整。Oracle11g则对这两部分进行综合，引入memory_target，可以自动调整所有的内存，这就是新引入的自动内存管理特性。
SQL> alter system set memory_target=200m scope=spfile;

System altered.

SQL> alter system set memory_target=200m scope=spfile;

System altered.

SQL> alter system set sga_target=0 scope=spfile;

System altered.

SQL> alter system set pga_aggregate_target=0 scope=spfile;

System altered.

SQL> shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.

SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  209235968 bytes
Fixed Size                  1298920 bytes
Variable Size             150998552 bytes
Database Buffers           54525952 bytes
Redo Buffers                2412544 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

设 置memory_target参数后，实际上Oracle会自动设置并调整两个以双下划线开头的隐含参数来分配SGA和PGA的内存，这和 Oracle10g自动设置sga_target后分配db_cache_size和shared_pool_size的机制是一样的
SQL> select a.ksppinm name,b.ksppstvl value
  2  from x$ksppi a,x$ksppcv b
  3  where a.indx=b.indx
  4  and (a.ksppinm like '%sga_target%'
  5   or a.ksppinm like '%pga_aggregate_target%');

NAME                                     VALUE
---------------------------------------- ------------------------------
sga_target                               0
__sga_target                             125829120
pga_aggregate_target                     0
__pga_aggregate_target                   79691776

如果memory_max_target/memory_target设置过大，可能导致instance无法启动，报ORA-00845错误
SQL> alter system set memory_max_target=300m scope=spfile;

System altered.

SQL> shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> startup
ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

这 个错误有点误导，实际上这并不是说该平台版本上不支持AMM特性，只是设置的memory_max_target超过了系统中设置的share memory（/dev/shm）而已。在Oracle11g for linux中似乎使用了一种新的机制来管理共享内存段，而不是传统的sys v shm了。在alert.ora中可以找到更准确的错误描述

    Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
    WARNING: You are trying to use the MEMORY_TARGET feature. This feature requires the /dev/shm file system to be mounted for at least 314572800 bytes. /dev/shm is either not mounted or is mounted with available space less than this size. Please fix this so that MEMORY_TARGET can work as expected. Current available is 209715200 and used is 0 bytes.
    memory_target needs larger /dev/shm

所以，这个错误有两种解决方法。第一种自然是减少memory_max_target/memory_target。第二种则是增加/dev/shm
增加/dev/shm有两种方法:
方法一:
[root@localhost ~]# df -k /dev/shm
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
shmfs                   204800         0    204800   0% /dev/shm

[root@localhost ~]# umount /dev/shm
[root@localhost ~]# mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=300m /dev/shm

[root@localhost ~]# df -k /dev/shm
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
shmfs                   358400         0    358400   0% /dev/shm

[root@localhost trace]# ls -l /dev/shm
total 0

增加/dev/shm后再次启动instance
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  313860096 bytes
Fixed Size                  1299624 bytes
Variable Size             255855448 bytes
Database Buffers           50331648 bytes
Redo Buffers                6373376 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

再来看/dev/shm中的内容
[root@localhost trace]# df -k /dev/shm
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
shmfs                   307200    122792    184408  40% /dev/shm
[root@localhost trace]# ls -l /dev/shm
total 122792
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方法二:
增加tmpfs文件系统的容量。修改/etc/fstab中tmpfs对应的行，
将原来的tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
改成tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=1024M 0 0 ，这样tmpfs增大为1G
size参数也可以用G作单位：size＝1G。
重新mount /dev/shm使之生效：
# mount -o remount /dev/shm
马上可以用"df -h"命令检查变化。
[root@localhost oracle]# df -h /dev/shm
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
none                  1.0G     0  1.0G   0% /dev/shm