If you have not applied patch 8.1.6.2.0, you can do it. The issues like block corruption, shared pool, memory lead are fixed in it.

Ashok.
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:22:58
Sharon wrote:
>We are running Oracle 8.1.6 on Solaris 2.7 and have been having steady
>performance degradatation over the last couple of days.
>I've checked in v$sysstat and see the following:
>session uga memory 2.5491918486856E15
>session uga memory max 1.84467440285901E19
>
>
>I'm not even sure this matters, but these values seem HUGE!
>
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