Yes Oracle Applications. ....much of the problem lies in custom scripting not in a particular module....i'm told. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Schmitt [mailto:mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:50 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Database sloowww...trying to figure out why... Just out of curiosity, did you mean this is an Oracle Apps environment? Mfg perhaps? At 03:23 PM 3/30/2004 -0600, you wrote: Well, what can I say...more performance problems in our apps environment. The outsourcing company is suggesting things like increasing buffer cache (seriously!).