Then just setup a seperate listener on another port and test only a few clients with that listener, retaining the existing, slow, listener yet for some time. Hemant At 11:06 PM Thursday, Thomas Jeff wrote: >We thought of that -- but updating the clients would be tough to do, >since we >have a lot of 3rd party apps hitting the box. > Hemant K Chitale http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l