Paul, >so would turning off active session history. At the risk of offending the "Hidden parameter" police, you can use one of the following parameters (_ash_enable seems to be the one): select nam.ksppinm NAME, nam.ksppdesc DESCRIPTION, ksppstvl VALUE, ksppstdf IS_DEF from x$ksppi nam, x$ksppsv val where nam.indx = val.indx and (ksppinm like '\_ash%' escape '\' or ksppinm like '\_active%' escape '\') order by 1; NAME DESCRIPTION _active_standby_fast_reconfiguration if TRUE optimize dlm reconfiguration for active/standby OPS _ash_disk_filter_ratio Ratio of the number of in-memory samples to the number of samples actually written to disk _ash_disk_write_enable To enable or disable Active Session History flushing _ash_dummy_test_param Oracle internal dummy ASH parameter used ONLY for testing! _ash_eflush_trigger The percentage above which if the in-memory ASH is full the emergency flusher will be triggered _ash_enable To enable or disable Active Session sampling and flushing _ash_sample_all To enable or disable sampling every connected session including ones waiting for idle waits _ash_sampling_interval Time interval between two successive Active Session samples in millisecs _ash_size To set the size of the in-memory Active Session History buffers Hth, John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc Phone: 408-970-7002 (W) Fear connects you to the Negative, but Faith connects you to the Positive! I Jn 4:18 ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l