>>>From a few responses I have I think people are confusing >>>what I am actually saying. I am not expecting UFS to be as >>>fast as SAN. However I am expecting 9i to be the same as 10g >>>on UFS and that is not what I am seeing. I am looking at 10g >>>being twice as slow as 9i in the scenario There is nothing wrong with your test case. I question what the default OSD behaviour is for direct and async IO on UFS when comparing 9i to 10g? Could it be that 9i on UFS is not doing direct I/O and 10g is? Orders of magnitude comparisons are generally memory vs disk comparisons, right ? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l