Martic Zoran wrote: >What will be interesting to see is the difference in >the CPU time between Windows XP and Linux. > >What is the difference in the pure CPU consumption >when you remove all waits? > >Which one is faster? > > I can answer that, but being that I am a Linux fan, I don't really want to, because Win2k (have not tried 2003) was consistently beating FC3 (same machine, just as in Niall's case) by 5%-10%. This orange juice must be too strong for me. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l