On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:46 +0530, Sudheendra Vijayakumar wrote: > Wonder how much of a difference would it make if you truned RAC off on > the same binaries. Any thoughts? Just "turning off RAC" is only part of it. You will want to test linked and unlinked. I have workloads that show the "tare weight" of simply having RAC linked in to cost as much as 10%...that is with RAC linked in but CLUSTER_DATABASE=FALSE...hey, it used to be a LOT worse with OPS :-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l